Role
Martine Hamilton Knight DLitt(hon), FHEA, is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the School of Art & Design, who has taught part time on the BA & MA programme since 2018.
As a professional architectural photographer and author, 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. Martine leads a module on professional practice called Futures.
Career overview
With a long established Nottingham business, Martine is an award winning independent architectural photographer and author of Photography for Architects. Over the last three decades, her architectural images have been published in dozens of books and journals world-wide and she has had several exhibitions. These include a large solo show in Ningbo, China in 2009 and one at Lakeside Arts Centre in 2022 encompassing some 90 photographs from Pevsner’s Buildings of England - Nottinghamshire, published by Yale University Press. Recently she has been working on the last of the Buildings of England series, this time in Staffordshire. It is due for publication in summer 2024.
Martine’s work is widely recognised by her industry. A major show of her work took place in Ningbo, China in 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of Nottingham in 2012 in recognition of her work.
She lectures across the UK for The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and runs workshops for The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and Line & Light.
Research areas
A member of NTU’s Design Research Centre, Martine is interested in exploring the changes in the commercial photographic world, with regard to digital technology, user generated content, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and and its implications on fee structure, branding, perceived value & client expectations. How these changes are subsequently reflected in education, training and the industry itself are topics which she is investigating.
A major publication, entitled Photography for Architects: Effective use of Images in your Architectural Practice, is a 480 page book for Routledge aimed at industry professionals. Published on 03 Jan 2024, it contains 485 colour photographs and encompasses topics such as the history of architectural photography, branding and marketing, working with journalists, legal and ethical considerations, compiling award submissions and project legacy. A section on making photographs tackles in-house procurement together with commissioning professionals and the implication of future technologies.
Martine was part of the Royal Photographic Society’s conference on Photography and Artificial Intelligence in Bristol, Autumn 2023 with her paper on The New Topographics: Man-altered Landscapes Become Machine-Altered Landscapes. Her article on architectural photography entitled: The Pevsner Way of Seeing was published by Quart Journal in summer 2022.
In June 2021, with fellow academic Dr.Rotimi Olaniyan, they presented their paper on Co-constructed Interdisciplinary Academic Practice in the Field of Visual Brand Communications at the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Conference (CABS - LTSE 2021).
External activity
- Lecture and Workshop: RIBA Photo Festival 2023, London.
- Speaker: Panel 3 on Legal, Rights, Practice, Conference, Bristol – Photography and Artificial Intelligence, Royal Photographic Society (2023)
- Judge for the Lincolnshire Architecture and Property Awards (2016 - present day)
- Specialist workshops with the Department of Architecture and The Built Environment, University of Nottingham (2021)
- Speaker – The Royal Photographic Society (2021)
- On tour for WEX (2018) Summer Architectural Photography Masterclasses across the UK
- Speaker/Trainer (2015) Photo Training Overseas, Fuerteventura
Media/Awards
- Assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA Awards (2018)
- Finalist – The Architectural Photography Awards (2018)
- National judge for The Architects Eye - Photography awards (2013)
- Honorary doctorate (DLitt) from The University of Nottingham (2012) for services to photography
- 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 - (Broadcast October 2007) (dir Richard Parkin BBC)
Solo Exhibitions
- Martine Hamilton Knight – Photography for Pevsner – Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (2022)
- 25 years of architecture through the viewfinder - Bromley House Library, Nottingham (2015)
- Hopkins in Nottingham : Nottingham on Camera - RIBA and Nottm Trent University (2014)
- RIBA 50/50 - RIBA Touring show – various East Midlands venues (2011)
- Nottingham Impression - Ninbgo Museum - China (2009)
- Nottingham Revealed - Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (2007)
- One City; One Hundred Years - The Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham (1997)
Sponsors and collaborators
Named a global ambassador for the photo-equipment company Manfrotto in 2013, (Vitec Group) Martine brought a collaboration with them into the university in 2019. To date, they’ve worked with BA Product Design students on Research & Design projects for Lastolite and BA & MA photographers in the form of an awards programme with another of their global brands - Colorama.
Publications
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
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 multiple print publications (1990) > Present day
- Architects Journal
- Architectural Today
- Architectural Review
- RIBA Journal
- Sunday Times
- Daily Telegraph
- The Observer
- Baumeister
- The Times
- Domus
- Building
- CBSE Journal
- Architectura Viva
- Building Services Journal
- World Architecture
- The Structural Engineer
+ many books and online publications including Dezeen and ArchDaily
Press expertise
Commercial Architectural Photographer and author of Photography for Architects, championing transformational student experiences within the creative industries.
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-time / SandwichCOURSE
Photography - BA (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/ba-hons-photography