Michael Martin

Michael Martin has become a specialist in photographing and writing about deserts. Born in Munich in 1963, he had already discovered his love of deserts by the age of seventeen. Over two decades he has undertaken eighty journeys through the deserts of Africa. Never before have the desert of the earth been captured so impressively in pictures. What Michael Martin, adventurer, photographer and geographer has undertaken here is no less than an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to document the whole variety of these deserts - their individual characteristics, the landscapes, the animal and plant world, the miscellaneous lifestyles of their inhabitants and the richness of their cultures.