Vicky Martin

Vicky Martin is an award winning British photographer with a background in art and design. She is best known for her conceptual portraits depicting the conflict between themes of fantasy and reality and strength and vulnerability, especially in relation to the female experience.
Vicky intertwines her created characters with staged realities, which seek to convey the tension and conflicts found within the self. Throughout her work she likes to explore, through strong female characters, recurring themes that she is drawn to, which include: conformity to the stereotypical, individual and societal expectations of femininity, vulnerability and self-doubt. Whilst all her works contribute to the narrative framework developed across her series', they also each depict an element of ambiguity that the viewer is invited to interpret in relation to themselves and their unique perception of the world.

Vicky discovered photography whilst studying art and design in the 1990s and she found this was the perfect fit for her creative voice and then decided to focus solely on photography at her local School of Art.

Her work has been widely published and exhibited around the globe.

Gauting International Photo Summer, Munich, Germany. Selfhood Solo Exhibition 4 Aug - 1 Sept 2024
Praxis Gallery & Photographic Art Center, Minnesota, US. Solo Exhibition June 2024
Praxis Gallery & Photographic Art Center, Minnesota, US. Anthologies: Nine Artists Nine Stories 2024
XIV Florence Biennale Fortezza da Basson, Florence, Italy "I AM YOU" 2023
Photo Basel Art Fair Switzerland FotoNostrum 2023
Inside-Out Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Irenic or Not? 2022
Polveriera Napoleonica Garzoni, Palmanova,Italy. Palmanova Creativa Exhibition. 8 Oct - 13 Nov 2022
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Stories: Narrative Photography 2 - 25 June 2022
Inside-Out Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. “Ceci n’est pas un portrait” 12 March - 24 April 2022
The CAMP Gallery, Cincinnati, US. Not Dior's New Look III 22 Feb - 22 March 2022
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Photographic Visions 10 February -5 March 2022
PANOPTICON Gallery, Boston, US. A SECOND GLANCE: FIRST LOOK 2022 Exhibition
ImageNation Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris. Ethereal A Modern Romance. 2021
ImageNation Milan Inside-out Gallery 2021
FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain. MELANCHOLIA 2021
BBA Gallery Berlin Photo Week RAW Area, Berlin. BBA Gallery Photogr...