Antoine Martin was born in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, in 1997. A photographer, he has worked independently since 2018. His work engages with stories that are not always evident at first glance, grounded in the simplicity of the real and the depth of the imaginary. He develops personal projects while also working on commission for private and public institutions, as well as for the press.

Trained in and drawn to photojournalism, he traveled to Ukraine on the third day of the invasion in 2022. It was his first experience in a country at war. In its aftermath, his practice began to shift as he sought to assert a more personal gaze, convinced this was the most honest form he could offer. His work now situates itself between documentary and journalism, at times allowing for a more formally driven approach.

He spent extended periods between 2018 and 2025 in Miami, USA, living within a marginal community in the neighborhood of Allapattah. This led to the development of his first project, Miami, not the Beach, followed later by a second project in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like a photographer returning to earlier processes, he began in Florida to use large lighting setups as a way of slowing down the act of photographing and approaching these territories as open-air enclosed spaces.

From then on, he has developed his projects by oscillating between involvement and observation, embracing a deliberately unstable position that allows him to approach, without claiming to belong, restricted contexts in which his presence is anything but self-evident.

He is also deeply interested in France. Since 2017, he has photographed those close to him as part of his project Quand je serai jeune (“When I will be young”).

His projects have been exhibited and screened in France and internationally, including at the Rencontres d'Arles and the International Photo Festival Rotterdam.

In 2023, he was awarded a one-year open commission by Sorbonne Université, alongside five other photographers, with the guiding question: “How can we make visible science in the making?” The project resulted in a traveling exhibition presented in France and abroad over five years. In 2024, he spent several weeks in the Central African Republic photographing humanitarian initiatives funded by the Agence Française de Développement. Between late 2024 and early 2025, he covered the U.S. presidential elections for Libération and Le Temps.