Johnny Martyr, of Martyr & Lee Photography, LLC, is an East Coast photojournalist who specializes in handcrafted black & white lifestyle images on 35mm film. He is formally educated & has been photographing important events & special occasions for high-profile clients for more than two decades.
Book him via email to document your upcoming wedding, concert, or other appearance. You can also hire him to just hang out & photograph you doing what makes you unique & awesome! Johnny's authentic analog style will make your photographs as enduring as they will be honest & distinct.
Johnny's reductive realist 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 2002 & 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, LLC. 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.
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
- Ahri Findling | Comedian
- Nicole Fiorentino of the Smashing Pumpkins & Veruca Salt | Musician
- Bob Giraldi | Director
- Nikki Glaser | Comedian
- Carson Kressley | Television Personality
- Anya Marina | Musician
- Matt & Kim | Musicians
- 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
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)
2024 - Petapixel | I Was Cast as a Photographer in a Historical Movie About a Maryland Town | Nov 25
2024 - Petapixel | A New Light Meter for the Old Leica M6 | Nov 19
2024 - Petapixel | The Ultimate Guide To Accessory Shoe Light Meters | Sept 4
2024 - Petapixel | A New Quick-Load Spool for Barnack Leica (and Similar)
Cameras | April 1
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 - 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
- DIY
Photography | First Photos Shot on Kodak's Rebooted
TMAX P3200 Film or Rockin' Out with Kodak TMAX P3200 | April 2
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
2017
- MiNT Camera | Press Coverage: MiNT Instantflex
TL70
2016 - Darkest Goth | Johnny Martyr: Provoke
PUBLICATIONS (FEATURED)
2024 - Brides & Weddings | Olivia And Jon's Romantic Country Wedding | Dec 1
2024 - The White Wren | Cosmos Club Film Wedding | Nov 12
2024 - Legendary Presets | Fujifilm Instax Review | Nov 13
2024 - Strictly Weddings | Brenna & Tarek's Black-tie Ceremony | Aug 28
2024 - Brides & Weddings | Brenna and
Tarek’s Timeless Black-Tie Wedding at the Cosmos Club | Aug 1
2024 - Bold Journey | Meet Johnny Martyr |
July 2
2024 - My Favorite Lens | KODAK EKTAR H35N HALF FRAME
CAMERA REVIEW | June
2024 - Shoot Dot Edit | 12 REASONS
TO SHOOT FILM PHOTOGRAPHY & HOW TO MARKET IT TO YOUR CLIENTS |
June
2024 - Alex
Luyckx Blog | Recommended
Reading | March 28
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 - TED | Speakers: Sonia Shah
2014 - New Paltz | Sonia Shah
2014 - Frederick News Post | First show by the Mid-Atlantic
Analog Photographers | Sept 4
2014 - The Little Rebellion | Sonia Shah
Addresses SUNY New Paltz Community on Malaria |
April
2014 - Think Inclusive | Are Your
Eyes Listening? | May 2
2014 - The Little Rebellion | New Paltz Visiting Professor To
Talk About The Intersection Of Science & Journalism | March
27
2014 - PhotoKlassik | Das
Portratobjektiv
2013 - Kodak Moments | Kodak
Moments | May 20
2012 - Lomography | Young
Masters #09
PODCAST MENTIONS & APPEARENCES
2024 - Camerosity | Episode 78: Super Ikontas, Pearls, and No Anthony! | Oct 7
2024 - Camerosity | Episode 68: April Fool's Day with Johnny and Dan | April 1
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
© 2000 - 2024 Johnny Martyr | Martyr & Lee Photography, LLC
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