“(Photography) is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt”
Martin Buday
Born 1976, Doylestown, PA
Currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA
BOOK!
My project, Prophetic Kingdom, is published by Daylight Books and out now! Visit my shop, contact me or the publisher to obtain a copy (scroll to bottom of this page for the book details and a few images).
Click here to view the Kickstarter campaign with video.
Interview: FishEye Magazine, France, 2021
Reviews: The Photo Book Journal, 2022
Frames Magaine, March 2022
Press: The Guardian February 2022
Creative Review February 2022
Financial Times UK, January 2022
Mint Magazine, France, February 2022
Elle Decor, Italy, February 2022
education:
MFA, November 2003, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
BA, December 1999, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Spring 2000-Spring 2001, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
solo exhibitions:
April-May 2022, (opening March 26th), “Prophetic Kingdom”, select images and book release, Gravy Studio, Philadelphia, PA
November 2018-january 2019, “Prophetic Kingdom,” Central Tattoo/Studio, Philadelphia, PA
May 2003, MFA thesis show, "Blandscape," Oglethorpe Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
selected group exhibitions:
feb-march 2021, The Halide Project, Processing 2020, philadelphia, PA
november 2020, wine dive, philadelphia, pa
october 2020, “four on the floor”, gravy studio/2020 photo fest, cherry street pier, philadelphia, pa
october 2018, the Curtis Center, philadelphia, pa
february 2017, semifinalist, 91st annual international competition, the print center, philadelphia, pa
june 2015, "pivotal," james oliver gallery, philadelphia, pa
march 2014, honorable mention, ONWARD Compé '14, project basho, philadelphia, pa
june 2013, PPAC's 4th annual contemporary photography competition & exhibition, philadelphia photo arts center, philadelphia, pa
may 2013, at second glance, pei ling chan gallery, savannah, ga
august 2009, NEXT: emerging philadelphia photographers, philadelphia photo arts center
april 2008, is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?, pierro gallery, south orange, nj
may 2006, PMPE phillips mill photographic exhibition, new hope, pa
may 2005, PMPE phillips mill photographic exhibition, new hope, pa
december 2004, "selections from silverworks," may poetter gallery, savannah, ga
spring 2003, "low county landscapes," exhibit a gallery, savannah, ga
january 2003, "small works," exhibit a gallery, savannah, ga
march 2002, "moving medium," starland gallery, savannah, ga
publications/web:
2022, Mint Magazine, France
2022, Elle Decor, Italy
2022, Konbini Arts, France
2022, Edge of Humanity Magazine
2021, FishEye Magazine, France (interview).
January 2022, The Photo Book Journal (book review)
February 2022, The Guardian
February 2022, Creative Review
January 2022, Financial Times UK
spring 2021, investigations in infrastructure, subjectively, objective
winter 2020, noice magazine
winter 2019, monster children magazine, photo annual, short listed for travel
fall 2019, urbanautia, extinction or the world without us? special mention
september 2019, observations in the ordinary, subjectively, objective
july 2018, cover, find rangers issue 16, book and job gallery, san francisco, ca
may 2015, france, planches contact 02
february 2015, italy, formagramma
june 2014, mossless issue three: the united states (2003-2013)
june 2013, flak photo
august 2012, australia, excerpt magazine issue 4
november 2011, photo/arts magazine, "my own wilderness" cover image credit of the book included in the indie photo book library
may 2011, troppo tardi
may 2011, conscientious
may 2011, lpv magazine
april 2011, newlandscapephotography
january 2011, urbanautica
october 2010, russian esquire
september 2008, dtown magazine, doylestown, pa
july 2007, flak photo
july 2007, the sonic blog, internationale fotografie
2005, mused magazine, issue 4, santa barbara, ca
2005, lensculture.com
2005, fstopmagazine.com
2005, filemagazine.com
2005, blir.net
2004, mooncruise.com
2004, suitcasemagazine.com
2003, silver works, savannah college of art and design, savannah, ga
Statement:
The title of the project, Prophetic Kingdom, was conceived from a humble ministry I photographed in rural Delaware. Within this loose biblical framework the images give an allegorical nod towards a prophesied, postlapsarian world in which great famine plagues the earth after many years of bountiful plenty. I liked the idea of prophecy and overlooked phenomena contained within our everyday world, juxtapositions of the divine next to the mundane. The project is an ongoing photographic survey exploring this world: taken for granted objects, buildings, vehicles and signage. Here they are mostly vacant, emptied places, void of people but reeking of human presence. The photos strive to observe with clarity and without judgement man's decisions over time, what was created and what is left. What do these banal surfaces reveal about the country and in-turn about ourselves?
”Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by providing them to be untrue.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Prophetic Kingdom, Martin Buday
Photographer: Martin Buday, born Doylestown, Pennsylvania, resides Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Publisher: Daylight Books (Durham, NC, USA, copyright 2021)
Essays: Elisa Wouk Almino, Nicole Kaack
Text: English
Cloth-covered hardcover book with tipped-in photo, sewn binding, four-color lithography, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 112 pages, 54 plates, printed in Turkey
Creative Director: Ursula Damm
