Martine Hamilton Knight
Martine Hamilton Knight DLitt (hon), FHEA, FRPS is an award-winning professional architectural photographer, educator and author based in the city of Nottingham (UK). A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, her career has spanned the last three decades and her images feature regularly in architectural books and journals.
Author of Photography for Architects: Effective Use of Images in your Architectural Practice – a 452-page book with 485 colour photographs is published by Routledge. Shortlisted for The Architectural Book Awards (2024), it including interviews by key global architectural practices, editors and image makers who share their knowledge and expertise, it is a vital guide for anyone invested in their practice’s brand image and visual presence.
A major show of her photography was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China in 2009 and in 2012, The University of Nottingham awarded her with an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Letters (DLitt Hon) in recognition of her photographic work.
In 2013 she was asked by Manfrotto, a global supplier of tripods and camera supports to become one of their international brand ambassadors. This role saw her talking about her work across the photographic industry, and she has been a speaker at the NEC’s Photography Show. In 2018 she toured the UK for photographic retailer WEX leading masterclass workshops for both professionals and enthusiasts. She regularly leads technical workshops at architectural locations for the Royal Photographic Society.
Martine has run a programme of CPD for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and twice been a regional assessor for the RIBA Architectural Awards in 2009 and 2018.
In 2019 she was asked by Yale University Press to shoot the revised Pevsner Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire. This saw her working with architectural historian Clare Hartwell on a 896-page volume which was published in 2020. The book was celebrated with an exhibition of 90 images at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre, April>August 2022 and she was asked to work on the final title of the series, Buildings of England: Staffordshire which was published to wide acclaim in July 2024.
Martine offers a consultancy service through Line and Light for architectural practices and aligned industry specialists who seek assistance in the development and management of their photographic portfolio.
ACADEMIC ROLE, RESEARCH AND WRITING
Martine’s university teaching role sees her spend part of her time on the BA Photography programme at Nottingham Trent University where she is a senior lecturer. Her area of specialism within the university encompasses a mixture of professional practice and technical delivery. Always one with an eye to life post-graduation, she is a passionate advocate of technical skill development and encouraging professional transformational experiences for students throughout their course of study. A member of NTU’s Design Research Centre, her work explores developments in the commercial photographic world, with regard to digital technology, AI Generative Images and its implications on fee structure, branding, perceived value & client expectation. How these changes are subsequently reflected in education, training and the industry itself are topics which she is investigating.
Her academic research and writing focuses on the way in which the built environment is depicted on camera – her paper The Pevsner Way of Seeing was published by Quart Journal in summer 2022. Recent investigations on the area of AI Generative Images and The Built Environment have seen Martine presenting papers at conferences held by The Royal Photographic Society (2023) and The InterAmerican University, Bueno Aires (2024).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Senior Lecturer – Nottingham Trent University – Module leader for Professional Practice Programme, BA (Hons) Photography (2018 >present day)
External Examiner – BA(Hons) Photography: Norwich University of The Arts (2024 -27)
Speaker/Folio Reviewer – RIBA Photo Festival (2023)
Specialist architectural photography workshops – Norwich University of The Arts (2022), Department of Architecture and The Built Environment, University of Nottingham (2021)
Speaker – The Royal Photographic Society (2021, 2023)
Tour – Architectural Photography Masterclasses for WEX (2018)
Speaker – The Photography Show, NEC, UK (2016)
Speaker/Trainer for Photo Training Overseas (2015)
CONFERENCES/ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Architecture and The Built Environment Seen Through the Eye of the Lens and AI – Does it matter which? The Image Conference (24/25 Oct 2024) InterAmerican University, Buenos Aires
New Topographics: Man-Altered Landscapes become Machine-Altered Landscapes Photography and AI Conference (14/15 Oct 2023) Royal Photographic Society, Bristol
The Pevsner Way of Seeing – Quart Journal (2022)
MEDIA / AWARDS
Jury panel member for Greater Lincolnshire Property & Construction Awards (2015>2025)
Jury Assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects – RIBA Awards (2018)
Finalist – The Architectural Photography Awards (2018)
Jury panel member for The Architects’ Eye – Photography Awards (2013)
Honorary Doctorate (DLitt hon) from The University of Nottingham for services to photography (2012)
Jury Assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects – RIBA Awards (2009)
Winner of Nottingham Creative Business Awards – Photography (2008)
Subject of BBC Television’s documentary series A Picture of Britain – Dir. Richard Parkin – Broadcast October (2007)
SOLO EXHBITIONS
Martine Hamilton Knight – Photography for Pevsner – Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottm (2022) Video courtesy of Alan Lodge
25 years of Architecture Through the Viewfinder – Bromley House Library, Nottm (2015)
Hopkins in Nottingham : Nottingham on Camera – RIBA & Nottingham Trent University (2015)
RIBA: Fifty50 – RIBA Touring show – various East Midlands venues (2011)
Nottingham Impression – Ningbo Museum, Zhejiang Province, China (2009)
Nottingham Revealed – Lakeside Arts Centre,m Nottm (2007)
One City: One Hundred Years – Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall (1997)
PUBLICATIONS
Photography for Architects: Effective use of images in your architectural practice (2024) Martine Hamilton Knight. Routledge
Buildings of England – Staffordshire (2024) – photographs by Martine Hamilton Knight. Yale University Press
Buildings of England – Nottinghamshire (2020) Clare Hartwell, Elizabeth Williamson, Nikolaus Pevsner, photographs by Martine Hamilton Knight. Yale University Press. Video courtesy of NDSA
Aspects of a Global University (2013) Martine Hamilton Knight, The University of Nottingham
RIBA 50/50 – Fifty Years of Architecture and Design in the East Midlands
(2010) RIBA, London
Campus Views (2007) Martine Hamilton Knight, The University of Nottingham
Nottingham Transformed (2006) Ken Powell, with photographs by Martine Hamilton Knight. Merrell Publishers.
Campus Critique (1998) Peter Fawcett, photographs by Martine Hamilton Knight. Sherwood Press.
Illustrations for numerous print/online publications 1990> Present day including :
Architectural Review
RIBA Journal
Architect’s Journal
Architecture Today
Building Services Journal
Building
CBSE Journal
The Structural Engineer
Architectura Viva
Baumeister
Detail
World Architecture
The Times
The Sunday Times
The Observer
The Guardian
Daily Telegraph
ArchDaily
Dezeen
+many other books and online publications
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