Name:
Kenneth Martin

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Kenneth R. Martin

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Member Since:
04/24/2004

About Kenneth Martin:
I am a self-taught photographer, who was a chenist, now retired and working full-time as a photographer. I have been exhibiting my photographs in galleries in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan. I am a member of the Creative Photographers' Guild, which owns a non-profit co-op fine-art photography gallery, the CPG Gallery, in Staten Island, and regularly shows exhibits of its members' work. My greatest influences are abstract and impressionist art. I like to explore relationships of geometric shapes and of harmonizing and contrasting colors of natural and constructed objects. I am also interested in historical places, archeology, old buildings and their styles, and industrial structures, especially abandoned and recycled buildings showing the changes our country has seen over the past century. About one-third of my work is street photography in New York City (all 5 boroughs); the people, parks, streets, architecture, bridges, and especially the waterfront and shorelines. One of my on-going projects is showing the constant changes along the edges of the city, which I hope to publish as a book some day. The rest of my work is travel photography, mostly in the United States, but also in Canada and Europe (Spain and Italy). I do a lot of off-road shooting of scenics, agriculture, historic places and small towns, rivers and natural areas.