Hello, my name is Martin J. Waterman, and thank you for visiting my website. I am a fine art and commercial photographer living and working in the Southern California area. I'm often asked to describe what my photography is like, and often have to say it is rather hard to describe. Hopefully this website will help make that question easier to answer. From 2001through 2005, I was working almost exclusively on three projects I was shooting in the beautiful deserts of Southern California . I  devoted most of 2006 to exhibiting my desert projects, and started working on my new project, A Black and White L. A. Night.

I have exhibited in many different venues in the Los Angeles area, including the annual open studios tour at the Santa Fe Art Colony. In 2004 and 2005 I won first place for fine art photography at the Millard Sheets Gallery annual juried national new photography competition. I have been exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, and in 2006 was accepted for juried exhibitions at the Rancho Palos Verdes Art Center and the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. I have also been exhibited in Arizona, and my work is in private collections across the United States. I am represented by Martha Higgins, and exhibited at her gallery, the M. J. Higgins Gallery, in downtown Los Angeles.

I do all my own printing from negatives I have taken and developed, and no digital processes of any kind are used at any time in the reproduction of my images. All of my color images are chromogenic prints on Kodak Ultra Endura archival paper and, if kept out of direct sunlight, will last upwards of 100 years. All of my black and white images are silver nitrate prints on either Oriental Seagull cold tone, or Bergger neutral or warm tone archival fiber paper, and if cared for properly will last indefinitely.

I hope that you will enjoy my images, and at the same time find them provocative. I never think about whether or not I should take a picture of something, only whether or not I find the image arresting. I don't seek to take unusual pictures, but rather to capture some piece of the world that we would normally never take a second look at. For the ordinary is frequently extraordinary. I will soon be starting a series on bathrooms, because I find as I look beyond their function their form can be beautiful. I will also be putting images from my travels around the Salton Sea up on the site soon, so please visit my website again in the future.

Thank You, Martin.