This meeting is a face to face talk open to the public.
Group Members free, Visitors £5 on the door.
Andy Martin is a photographer and filmmaker from Sunderland, County Durham.
With a strong passion for much of the North East, its industry and
people, Andy's extensive body of work spanning almost 20 years is an
unparalleled record of the area seen from a unique perspective.
He is especially drawn to working alongside marginalised communities who are
still living through the cultural, social and economic changes of the
region, helping to give them a platform to tell their stories.
Andy primarily works with older, higher quality analogue processes -
medium and large format film cameras - to tell these stories. He is also
one of a small handful of people in the world specialising in a
photographic technique known as the wet collodion process which dates
back to 1851.
The resulting images are produced entirely by hand on sheets of metal and glass - tintypes and ambrotypes - with no two the same.
The majority of Andy’s work is is produced at his dedicated studio and
darkroom in Hendon. Recently, his portraits won both the British
Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity, as well as their Portrait
of Britain Awards.
You can see more of Andy's work at https://martintype.co.uk/
With a strong passion for much of the North East, its industry and
people, Andy's extensive body of work spanning almost 20 years is an
unparalleled record of the area seen from a unique perspective.
He is especially drawn to working alongside marginalised communities who are
still living through the cultural, social and economic changes of the
region, helping to give them a platform to tell their stories.
Andy primarily works with older, higher quality analogue processes -
medium and large format film cameras - to tell these stories. He is also
one of a small handful of people in the world specialising in a
photographic technique known as the wet collodion process which dates
back to 1851.
The resulting images are produced entirely by hand on sheets of metal and glass - tintypes and ambrotypes - with no two the same.
The majority of Andy’s work is is produced at his dedicated studio and
darkroom in Hendon. Recently, his portraits won both the British
Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity, as well as their Portrait
of Britain Awards.
You can see more of Andy's work at https://martintype.co.uk/
Friday 17th October 2025
Meeting opens at 7.00pm for Tea, Coffee and chat.
Talk starts at 7.30pm prompt.
Meeting ends 21.00