News

November

Art Basel, Miami Martin will have eight pieces in Art Basel Miami this December 3 - 6. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States. His work will be shown as part of Aleatoric Art in booth 41 in the Aqua Wynwood exhibition space. Learn more about the show at www.artbaselmiamibeach.com. Midland Center for the Arts Then, January 23, 2010 - April 25, 2010, Martin will have 20 pieces at the Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, Michigan. The exhibit is in conjunction with a science-related show called WaterWorks.

 

May

Money Magazine Article Money Magazine featured Martin in their May issue, highlighting on his mid-life career switch. The feature, called "Second Act", focuses on Martin's path from software engineer to self-employed photographer.

 

October

Coca Cola Product Launch Martin was invited to Buenos Aires, Argentina by Coca Cola to help in a product launch for their Aquarius (by Cepita) fruit drink. The event included an exhibition of nine of Martin's works, plus three custom pieces created for the event. The three pieces were commissioned to incorporate the three flavors of the beverage: apple, pear, and grapefruit. Hosted by Horacio Kabak, Martin spoke to 60 journalists about his work and its connection to water.

 

August

"Time Warp" on Discovery Channel This fall, Discovery Channel has a new show, "Time Warp". Hosted by Jeff Lieberman from M.I.T., the theme is "all things too fast or too slow for the eye to see," it features high-speed video and time-lapse photography of a wide variety of natural events. Martin is a guest on the segment called "Freerunners, a solid liquid, water droplets," that features drops and splashes. He and Jeff captured what they believe to be the first-ever slow-motion footage of a drop landing on a splash. Shot at 10,000 frames per second in HDTV resolution, the resulsts are a visual feast. Someone has posted the segment on YouTube. (photo, right, copyright, Jeff Lieberman)

 

April-August

Showing with Doc Edgerton's Work Martin is a co-exhibitor in "Stopping Time: The Art and Science of Harold "Doc" Edgerton's Life Work" in the Coe Gallery at the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, North Carolina. From the museum's website: "Scientist and engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton pioneered the field of strobe photography. Capturing subjects too fast for the naked eye to witness, his photographs have a distinctive visual aesthetic. This show will feature vintage Edgerton photographs as well as images by contemporary high-speed photographers influenced by Edgerton."
February
Martin is showing several new works at the Michael Servetus Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vancouver, Washington. The show runs through the month of February. Artist's Reception: Saturday, February 2nd, 5 - 7 p.m. Stop in, meet Martin in person, and see his recent work. Map to the fellowship

 

October

October 16th - Evening Magazine on KING5 TV in Seattle ran a short segment on Martin's work. See it here.

J. Walter Thompson - Smirnoff Ads

Following its recent blockbuster TV ad for Smirnoff, advertising agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT) created a trio of ads to continue its "purity" theme. The agency selected Martin Waugh to create martini, highball and whiskey glasses out of water drops and splashes.

"We always have our eyes open conducting ongoing research into the world's best and most innovative photographers," says Phillip Meyler, Art Director for JWT, London. "Martin certainly comes under those categories. No one else could have done the campaign justice."

Smirnoff filters its vodka ten times and distills it three times. The creative team asked Waugh to visually convey, "extraordinary purity in every drop". Using his exclusive techniques, Waugh created and photographed splashes in the shapes of beverage glasses. See all three ads.

April

It's a busy month in Europe: three exhibitions. One in Italy at the Metropolis Photogallery in Bologna, one in Groningen, The Netherlands at the corporate offices of Gasunie, and as a coexhibitor in a show of high-speed photography at KUSS Wolfsberg, Austria.

December

On November 28, 2006 the Daily Planet show from Discovery Channel Canada aired a segment on Martin Waugh and his Liquid Sculpture images. This five-minute interview and demonstration reveals some of Martin's techniques and insights into his work.

If you are not within the U.S., you can view it at Discovery Channel Canada site under their "From the Vault" section. In the U.S., you can try a bootleg DivX version at Stage6.

November

The November issue of FOTOCult, one of Italy's premiere photography magazines, features Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculpture work as the cover article. The six-page article contains an interview with Martin, and presents several of his intriguing images.

From the article's introduction (translated):

"One who does not watch with exultation the wonders of the world receives little love from photography. Martin Waugh knows to catch a glimpse the harmony of the nature in metamorphosis of a drop that falls; he studies the physical phenomenon and employs a refined technique in order to reveal to us the resulting shape. The image collection "Liquid Sculpture", an anthology that has become famous to world-wide level, is the fruit of a meticulous search on dynamics of the fluid combined with an inexhaustible supply of sincere passion. We have contacted Waugh from beyond the ocean. His words are strong statements and clear. Liquid Sculpture, the portfolio that we present in these pages, probably best represents today the activity of this photographer, and it has given us, through the press and Internet, a beautiful international review."

See the article in its original Italian...