Uwe H. Martin is an artist, visual storyteller, slow journalist, and teacher. With his partner, Frauke Huber, he has documented global agriculture's social and environmental consequences since 2007, bridging traditional journalistic publications, linear web documentaries, interactive apps, spatial multichannel installations, and performances.
As an integral part of his artistic practice, Uwe teaches photography, film, journalism, eco-social, planet-centric and circular design at universities, workshops, and journalism schools worldwide. He strives to empower people to become independent, expand their scope of action, and bring about lasting changes in society and the environment:
Uwe cofounded the international art and research project "World of Matter", and "Aggrey's Dream" supporting a school in Mombasa, Kenya, with four teachers, a school lunch program, and a bakery that generates an independent income for the school. Recognizing the urgent need for new ways to finance quality freelance journalism, Uwe cofounded the “RiffReporter”, Germany’s largest author-owned journalism cooperative, the non-profit “Riff Freie Medien gGmBH“, that channels money from foundations to freelance journalism, and “Transformation Journalism” that explores how journalists and visual storytellers can become agents for eco-social change.
Uwe lives in Schlehdorf at the Kochelsee in Bavaria and Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea in Southern California. In Bombay Beach, he is building a campus, a desert garden, and a research lab bringing together diverse expert teams envisaging solutions to the Water-Food-Energy-Climate-Nexus.
