About Olaf Martens

Olaf Martens keeps returning to St Petersburg. The magnificent metropolis on the Neva exerts an irresistible pull on him. It isn’t just the vast supply of superlative motifs that fascinates him – camera fodder for an insatiably curious lensman...
Klaus Honnef: O. Martens in St. Petersburg (PDF)

At the start we find the grotesque portrait of a pompous, female model made of papier maché. Lying on a carriage, the unblemished figure rolls over the cobblestones of a street flanked by crumbling, late 19th century houses...
Klaus Honnef : In the mirror image of the world of images (PDF)

”Olaf Marten’s photographs don’t leave anyone cold“ is how Curator Harald Kunde once described the often heated reaction to your works...
Poor photos destroy themselves (PDF)