Martin Brent

Brent is a lens based artist working and awarded internationally. Awards include, AOP Gold, Communications Arts, American Photography, IPA Lucies, Sony World Photography Awards and PDN "So my gaze falls on the world where humans inhabit or have made their inevitable marks. My view on the world is influenced by the changes humans have made to it, I rarely if ever photograph purely natural things." Brents ‘style’ or ‘look’ could be described as observational. Looking for themes, often making comments that he hopes the audience will spot and investigate further. Brent uses compositional rules to help the viewer find their way around the images. In many cases following his directions will lead to a questioning of what it is exactly the viewer is looking at and the theme or comment that may not have been immediately obvious may then merge. His motivation may be fleeting, often humourous or be motivated by deeper emotion and concerns. As Lewis Baltz says “The landscape…seems more a set of conditions, a location where things and events might transpire rather than a given thing or event in itself; an arena or circumstance within which an open set of possibilities might be induced to play themselves out”