Photographer, writer, and close reader of the human condition. Michael’s work reaches past documentation to what lingers our shared humanness. From the Umbrella Protests in Hong Kong to different Manila barangays,, his photographs show politics, street life, and quiet resilience colliding in frames that evoke more than they describe.
An adjunct lecturer at LaSalle College of the Arts and former gallery owner in Atlanta, Michael’s path moves from early abstractions to intimate street portraiture. Light and shadow are the tools. Truth, justice, and connection are the aim.
What happens when you point a camera at the ordinary and refuse to look away? Michael Martin wanders the streets of Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, and beyond, gathering faces, fragments, and gestures that say more than words ever could.
This isn’t a polished narrative. It’s uneven, layered, alive. From abstract beginnings to the raw pulse of street life and the echoes of protest, each image asks a quiet question: what does it mean to remain human in a world racing toward something less?
The pages don’t answer. They remind. Connection. Resistance. Small proofs that behind the noise, we’re still here.
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