Martin Barraud

Martin Barraud is an award winning conceptual and fine art photographer whose work has featured in 14 D&AD Awards, including two highly-prestigious Yellow Pencils.
His advertising commissions include international brands such as Boehringer Ingelheim and he helped create the superbrand that Investec became with his photoshoots of Zebras for over a decade.
With many years experience shooting all over the world, Martin is as content creating a single image over several days as he is in taking on a photo-adventure over weeks or months.

Over the last few years Martin has evolved his creative career to encompass installation art and he was the artist who in 2016 created the iconic There But Not There project – its name, Tommy and the seated silhouettes installation, the last of which went on to be installed in over 4,000 communities nationally in the UK in 2018.
The Tommy has gone on to become an iconic figure of Remembrance in its own right and is now owned and used by Royal British Legion Industries in its logo.
In 2019 Martin created the D-Day Bootprint Installation on Slapton Sands to help commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 749 American service personnel lost off the beach in a D-Day rehearsal in April 1944.
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Martin trained at Salisbury College of Art and went on to assist - and learn from - one of London's great photographers before setting out on his own.
However he feels deep down his artistic strengths come from his DNA, being the descendant of Huguenot's who immigrated into England in the 18th Century from France. His ancestors include silversmiths, clock & watch makers, stained glass window makers, oil painters, engravers and etchers (his grandfather being an official WW1 artist).