Uwe H. Martin

Uwe H. Martin is an independent visual storyteller, slow journalist, researcher and educator. His long-term projects, which combine photography with documentary film, text and sound, focus on the great environmental issues of the Anthropocene. 

Together with his partner, Frauke Huber, Uwe documents the social and environmental consequences of global agriculture since 2007. Using a slow journalism approach, their projects build bridges from traditional journalistic publications, over linear web-documentaries and interactive apps, to spatial installations at art institutions.

Their projects are part of the collaborative art and research project World of Matter, which Uwe cofounded in 2010. World of Matter investigates primary materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. The project brings artists, architects, photojournalists, designers and programmers with notable bodies of previous work on natural resources and spatial politics together with theorists working in the areas of geography, art history and cultural theory.