Martin Visser on Fstoppers

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Though he originally studied law and worked as a Real Estate Agent, Martin has been interested in photography since childhood. In 1989 he took a basic photography course and a black and white darkroom course in college and soon set up a darkroom at his house and began experimenting with traditional black and white printing and with alternative, and somewhat archaic, printing methods and materials: cyanotypes, salt prints, gum bichromate prints, all on hand-coated watercolour papers etc.

His experienced a renewed enthusiasm and appreciation for photography after taking promotional pictures of properties for a virtual gallery on the webpage of his Real Estate Agency and was surprised when he received numerous compliments about the professional look of his photographs and several suggestions that he should take up photography. Thus, a serious hobby began to transform into a new career…

By end of 1997, he enrolled for a full-time study in photography at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (formally known as the Port Elizabeth Technikon) in South Africa. After grad school he opened his first professional photography studio.

Today, Martin is a Lancashire based photographer specialising in studio portraiture and fine art photography.

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