From last years road-trip through California
Some travel work
in Photography
personal work
Call for Photographers
It's time to dust of a project I've been working on for a couple of years. The Portraitist is a collaborative effort between myself and another photographer to create a dual self-portrait of ourselves.
In order to make the exercise a bit more fun I established a few rules:
-The photographer is free to take my portrait at any time of the day
-The photographer is free to take my portrait in any environment he or she prefers
-The photographer is free to take my portrait using any medium
-The photographer is free to take my portrait in any way he or she choose
My portrait of the photographer follow these rules:
-The portrait must be taken using the same equipment, light setup and background.
Send me an email if you wish to participate
minutiae ready for download
For the past two years I’ve been developing an anti-social media app called minutiae. The project is in some ways a continuation of my earlier book project Suburbia Gone Wild as it focus on the ordinary moments that we all experience in our everyday lives regardless of nationality, religion or class.
In the age of Instagram and Snapchat, this project can perhaps be best described as a way of documenting moments that we usually wouldn’t consider “share-worthy” enough -- which happens to be all the repetitive and mundane moments that really are our lives.
For me, a photographer who works on topics like social structures and behavior and often is just a temporary “visitor” to places or cultures, minutiae offers a unique opportunity to experience the nuances in people's daily routines in ways otherwise not possible.
The minutiae project - which Monocle magazine's Rob Bound called "the best thing I heard about in forever started in 2014, when I became a member of The New Museum’s incubator program, New Inc. There I met the artist and scientist Daniel J Wilson; we began sketching on an idea that focused on the nuances of Big Data which later transformed into an anti-social media app -.
For participants who wish to have all their own images taken with the app in physical form we've created a 2880 page book that's available in a limited edition of 100 copies.
minutiae has been built by super app developer studio UsTwo Nordics who among other apps created Rando and Monument Valley.
minutiae is available for download in the App Store.
Work in Progress
Here's some work in progress from a side project I've been working on during some time. Prints are available for sale, please inquire to martin@martinadolfsson.com
Visual Structures is a series of digital compositions consisting of urban elements from Jakarta, Tokyo, Mumbai, New York, Chicago, São Paulo, Dubai, London, Miami and Seattle. Together they form an endless urban landscape of glass, steel and reinforced concrete, cast in a seemingly repetitive universal framework.
While statues of Kings and Emperors were the manifest of old-world sovereignty, these structures come to represent the symbol of new-world Globalization. These vertical structures are not only a sign of rising prosperity but more importantly a coming-of-age symbol, especially in developing nations. Visual Structures is the representation of our modern civilization’s steady march towards global homogenization.
Digital Composite #1
Size: 125 x 22.7" (317.5 x 57.66 cm)
Digital C-Print
Edition 1/10
Digital composite #2
Size: 215.3 x 15.6" (546.9 x 39.6 cm)
Digital C-print
dition 1/10
Summer in America
Summer is officially over, at least here in the US. During the last three months I had the opportunity to visit a couple of new places while on the road. I usually try to stay an extra day or two when I'm out on assignments in order to discover the area in my own pace.
This Summer I stopped at Willie's Fish Pond in Virginia (which I first thought was a sea food restaurant). I met a homeless man who perform a flawless dance routine to Chic's Le Freak at a bus stop in Detroit (he was not waiting for the bus) and shot a tremendous amount of images of skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan (don't know why, I just love it). Oh and I went Upstate as well.... but more on that next time.
Lake Lure, NC
Lake Lure, NC
Willie's Fish Lake, VA
Smoky Mountains, NC
Margaretville, NY
Manhattan
Manhattan, Asheville, NC
Detroit
Detroit
Detroit
Manhattan