Artist biography
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Tate Martinson is an alternative process and film photographer. He was raised in the rural town of Bemidji, Minnesota where he draws inspiration. Derived from the death of his father to his current-day challenges his work reflects his emotions, feelings, and experiences. This is reflected through abstraction and curated details, building his own camera obscuras, experimenting with zone plate and pinhole processes creating work that challenges the expectations of traditional photography. He graduated with his masters from the Savannah College of Art and Design were he studied under some of the best alternative photography professors in the country. Awed and inspired by the transformative nature of light, Martison works as a professional artist and aspires to be a professor one day and teach future generations the beauty of photography and alternative processes that are often overlooked by the digital age.