Almost all his images were produced at night, using the aprons'
floodlights, moonlight or long exposures of between ten minutes to
two hours. The airports on the Azores are unique. In order that
they would not be spotted from the air during wartime they are
amongst the very few black-tarred runways in the world, and it is
the relationship between the dark tarmac and the fluorescent
painted signs and runway markings that lie at the heart of some of
Martins' most arresting images. This unusual combination allowed
him to produce incredibly abstract images, with a very long depth
of field and often with the use of minimal lighting. In some, sky
and ground merge in darkness with only the lights and airport
hieroglyphics to orient us. Yet even these are hard to decode, for
whilst this is a landscape of signs that can be read by the
knowledgeable - pilots and air traffic controllers, for instance -
it remains perplexing to the uninitiated. This juxtaposition of
sign and shape are at the heart of these remarkable images.
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