J o h n n y M a r t y r is an East Coast photojournalist who handcrafts black & white lifestyle images on 35mm film.
Martyr's photography can be found in periodicals such as Marie Claire, HuffPost, TED & Buzzfeed; on the gallery walls of ArtistAngle & The Delaplaine; as well as the social media of Kodak Professional. He studied Film, Video & Theatre at Villa Julie College from 1999 to 2003 & was a wedding photographer with Bradley Images Photo & Video from 2001 to 2004. Martyr took commercial production stills & covered news events for Erickson Living from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he teamed up with Stephanie Lee to form Martyr & Lee Photography. He has been a freelance author for Petapixel since 2018. Martyr has photographed politicians including Bill & Hillary Clinton; musicians Veruca Salt & comedian Nikki Glaser.
When he’s not shooting, Johnny Martyr collects Night of the Living Dead trading cards. He also enjoys drinking craft beer or absinthe while listening to alternative, Britpop & grunge music.
Social:
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Email: JohnnyMartyr@Hotmail.com | MartyrLeePhotography@Gmail.com
EDUCATION
2002 BS in Film, Video & Theatre - Villa Julie College - Stevenson, Maryland
EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Rainbow Ridge Studio, Fort Washington MD | Hadestown |
November 7
2018 - Artist Angle, Frederick MD | Photographica: The Art of
Photography |November 3 - December 22
2018 - The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick
MD | MAAP | June 23 - July 29
2017 - Frederick Community College, Frederick
MD | Artist Angle
2015 - Cafe Nola, Frederick MD | DC Metro Print |
MAAP
2014 - Artist Angle, Frederick MD | B&w Portraiture |
MAAP | September
2008 - Gallery 61, Buffalo NY | Inaugural
Exhibition
2007 - Balance, Baltimore MD | Rosewood Asylum
Series
2006 - St Paul Pavilion, Stevenson MD | Sarah
Stup Portraits | Jan 30 - May 26
2005 - Villa Julie College Gallery, Stevenson
MD | Optical Romance |
March 29 - April 16
PUBLICATIONS (AUTHORED)
2023 - Petapixel | How I Shot Nikki Glaser’s Tour Promos on B&W 35mm Film | Dec 24
2023 - Petapixel | Kodak Ektar H35N Half Frame Camera Review: More Sharpness, More Fun |
Oct 26
2023 - Petapixel |One Man’s Trash: Parting Out Veteran Photojournalist Bill Green’s
Darkroom | Oct 8
2023 - Petapixel | Rediscovering Sarah Stup and 35mm Film | Aug 12
2023 - 35mmc | Louise Post, a Shutterbug & the Importance of Tangible Things |
Aug 7
2023 - Petapixel | Want to Learn How to Shoot Film?
Here’s How! | May 18
2023 - Petapixel | Uncertainty Surrounds the Future of Kodak Photo Paper and Chemistry |
May 8
2022 - Petapixel | Barnack Quirks: An Intro to Shooting with Early 35mm Leica Cameras | Dec
21
2022 - Petapixel | Flying with
Film: How to Handle X-Ray Checkpoints | Dec 4
2022 - Petapixel | A Decade Later & I'm Still Married to Black & White Film |
Nov 8
2022 - Petapixel | Kodak Ektar H35 Review: Out-of-the-Box Fun | July 12
2021 - Petapixel | A Little Baltimore Camera Repair Shop That Survived the Digital
Revolution | Nov 14
2021 - Petapixel | Teen Finds Entire Leica M Camera Kit at Church Sale for $15 |
Aug 16
2021 - Petapixel | What a New, Budget-Friendly Leica M 35mm Camera Might Be Like | Jan
2
2020 - Film Photography Project | 120 Film - Kodak Uses New Backing
Paper | Dec 19
2020 - Petapixel | Bill Biggart: The Hero Photographer Who Died Capturing 9/11 |
September 11
2020 - Shoot It With Film | Fireworks on Film | July 17, 2020
2020 - Petapixel | Photographing Fireworks with a 90-Year-Old-Camera | July
1
2020 - Barnack Berek | The Leica M6 TTL .85 is the Best 35mm Film Camera Ever Conceived |
Jan 29
2020 - Only On Film |The Leica M6 TTL .85 is the Best 35mm Film Camera Ever Conceived |
Jan 28
2020 - Petapixel | The Leica M6 TTL .85 is the Best 35mm Film Camera Ever Conceived |
Jan 27
2020 - Petapixel | What's Your Rangefinder's Effective Base Length? | Jan 30
2019 - Petapixel | You Can Still Buy a Brand New Nikon F6 | Dec 10
2019 - DIY Photography | These Photos Were Taken By Two Little Girls in 1917, and They Are
Gorgeous | Oct 18
2019 - Shoot It With Film | Voigtländer Super Wide 15mm Lens Review | Oct 4, 2019
2019 - DIY Photography | The Clash of Palladium and Silver | Sept 23
2019 - Petapixel | The Clash of Palladium and Silver | Sept 21
2019 - Shoot It With Film | Shooting Low-Light Receptions with Film | June 30
2019 - DIY Photography | SHOOTING WEDDING RECEPTIONS ON FILM WITH NO FLASH AND NO AUTOMATION |
May 6
2019 - Petapixel | Shooting Weddings on ISO 3200 Film, Full Manual, and No Flash |
May 6
2018 - Petapixel | First Photos Shot on Kodak's Rebooted TMAX P3200 Film |
March 28
2018 - Fantasm Media | Night of the Living Dead Trading
Cards are Coming to Get You! | October 1
2018 - DIY Photography | First
Photos Shot on Kodak's Rebooted TMAX P3200 Film or Rockin' Out with Kodak
TMAX P3200 | March 28 - April 4
2017 - MiNT Camera | Press Coverage: MiNT Instantflex
TL70
2016 - Darkest Goth | Johnny Martyr: Provoke
PUBLICATIONS (FEATURED)
2023 - Affinity Spotlight | 14 Tips for Photographing Fireworks |
Dec 20
2023 - Westworld | Nikki Glaser Lights Up Paramount Theatre With The
Good Girl Tour New Year's Eve | December 22
2023 - Canny Cameras| KODAK EKTAR H35 REVIEW | March
13, 2023
2023 - The Resurrected Camera | The Importance of Familiarity | January
25, 2023
2023 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | How To Pay As Little As Possible For Film | May
20
2023 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | The Significance & Probability of a New Pentax
K1000 | April 1
2023 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | There’s More To Shooting 3200 Speed Film | March 4
2023 - Mr. Leica | Most Accurate Rangefinder Camera? | Jan
2022 - Thomas Eisl Photography | A New Nikon F6 | Dec 30
2021 - Down the Road by Jim Grey |
Happy Birthday, Kodak Tri-X | Nov 6
2021 - The Sun Magazine | Lawrence the Enormous Page 24 Issue
550 | October
2021 - 121 Clicks | 50
B&W Photographs Which Will Tell You Light Is Everything |
Sept 27
2021 - Virus Editorial | Pandemic |
March
2020 - The Resurrected Camera | Is the F6 the Last Film Nikon? | Dec 20,
2020
2020 - Team Human | ‘We’ll
Always Be Strangers, Ourselves’ With Sonia Shah |
Nov 30
2020 - Team Human | Live
from IMPAKT Festival with Sonia Shah | Nov 30
2020 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | Photographing Fireworks with a 90 Year Old Leica |
July 4
2020 - Film Photography Project | George
Floyd Protests | June 11
2020 - Canny Cameras | Blinded
by the Light | April 6
2019 - Lomography | Discovering
Lomographic Styles: Neorealism | Dec
2019 - Panta Rhei | A New
Nikon F6 | Dec 30
2019 - Down the Road by Jim
Grey | Film Photography Blogs You Should Follow |
August 29th
2019 - Analog Forever Magazine | Visual Audio | June
2019 - SLR Lounge | Film
Wedding Photographers You Should Follow! | May 28
2019 - Painter Legend | What's
So Trendy About 27st Century Abstract Artists | March 16
2019 - FOQUS | Johnny
Martyr: Another Kind of Wedding Photographer | Jan 25
2019 - Huffington Post | Superbugs |
Jan 3
2018 - Canny Cameras| The Reading Room | December
20, 2018
2018 - PR Web | 'Photographica:
The Art of Photography' Exhibit at The ArtistAngle Gallery |
October 24
2018 - Kodak Moments | Matt and Kim on P3200 |
October 6
2018 - The Collection from Artist Angle Gallery | Page 4 |
Issue #1
2018 - Film Never Die | Kodak
TMAX P3200
2018 - The Sun Magazine | Dating Page 35 Issue
506 | February, 2018
2017 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | Defending the Nikon FM10 | August
26
2017 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | Behold, the Konica III | July 8
2017 - The Baltimore Jewish Times | A New Beginning |
June 23
2017 - The Baltimore Jewish Times | A New Beginning For Rosewood |
June 21
2017 - The Sun Magazine | Recovery Page 16 Issue 498 | May, 2017
2017 - Sǎo wén zīxùn | Not
Enough Black and White | April 26
2017 - Down the Road by Jim Grey | Photographing Disney with the Instax Mini 8 |
April 15
2017 - Primal Music | EP Review - Painted Mirror |
March 29
2017 - Subversive Zine | Frederick's Music
Scene Pages 13 & 14 | March, Issue 1
2016 - Modern Wedding | As If By Magic: Lovebirds Chaz & Nicole Get Hitched |
October 25
2016 - Frederick County Public Schools | Hearing
Sarah's Words | October 12
2016 - Badass Americans | Sonia Shah | September 12
2016 - JazJaz.net | Can Photographing Beautiful Women Be Like Going to
War? The B&W Photography of Johnny Martyr
2016 - Spreadophilia | Johnny
Martyr: Shoot to Kiss | July, Issue #19
2016 - Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb | Q&A with Sonia Shah |
May 27
2016 - BuzzFeed | Teen Boy Says He Was Kicked Out of Ted Cruz Rally
For Being Transgender | April 25
2016 - 121 Clicks | Best Photographs of the Week |
April 24
2016 - Huffington Post | Superbugs | March 29
2016 - Thought Matters | Superbugs | March 25
2015 - Lomography | 5 Ways to Change the Mood of Your Portraits | Sept 30
2015 - Marie Claire | Secrets of the Sisterhood |
August Issue
2015 - True Tales of a Punk Rock Pinup | The Most Swoonworthy Man of 2015 |
Feb 14
2014 - Frederick News Post | First show by the Mid-Atlantic Analog Photographers | Sept 4
2014 - TED | Speakers:
Sonia Shah
2014 - PhotoKlassik | Das Portratobjektiv
2014 - The Little Rebellion | Sonia Shah Addresses SUNY New Paltz Community on
Malaria | April 2014 - Think Inclusive | Are Your Eyes Listening? |
May 2
2014 - New Paltz | Sonia
Shah
2014 - The Little Rebellion | New Paltz Visiting Professor To Talk About The
Intersection Of Science & Journalism | March 27
2013 - Kodak Moments | Kodak Moments |
May 20, 2013
2012 - Lomography | Young Masters #09 | 2012
PODCAST MENTIONS & APPEARENCES
2024 - Camerosity | Episode 64: Rollei Rollei Rollei | January 31
2023 - Embrace the Grain | Episode 89 - Johnny Martyr | December 14
2023 - Classic Camera Revival | Episode 163 – The Other Nikons | November 10
2023 - Sunny 16 Podcast | Music and Photography #35 Johnny Martyr | Aug 8
2022 - The Barnack Hour | What’s the Difference Between the M6, the TTL and Leica MP? | March 22
2021 - The Ephemeral Machine | Episode Two | Oct 24
2021 - Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast | #363.5 | June 1
2021 - Classic Lenses Podcast | Cocaine & Waffles | May 20
2019 - Classic Lenses Podcast | Friends & Allies | March 4
2018 - Film Photography Podcast | We Love Kodak P3200 TMAX! | April 24
NOTABLE SUBJECTS
- David Burnett | Photojournalist
- Candlebox | Musicians
- Bill Clinton | U.S. President
- Hillary Clinton | U.S. Presidential Candidate
- Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator
- Burton Cummings of The Guess Who | Musician
- Val Emmich | Musician
- Nicole Fiorentino of the Smashing Pumpkins & Veruca Salt | Musician
- Nikki Glaser | Comedian
- Bob Giraldi | Director
- Carson Kressley | Television Personality
- Matt & Kim | Musicians
- Anya Marina | Musician
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult | Musicians
- Ralph Nader | U.S. Presidential Candidate
- Louise Post of Veruca Salt | Musician
- Susan Sarandon | Actress
- Kathleen Sebelius | U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
- Sonia Shah | Author
- Sarah Stup | Author
- Bryan Voltaggio | Chef