His series The Diminishing Present was subsequently included in the Prix Pictet exhibition which travelled to Thessaloniki Museum of Photography; The Empty Quarter in Dubai and Eindhoven University of Technology.
For example, in an interview with ARTmostfierce, he states: When I photograph I don’t do any post production to the images, either in the darkroom or digitally, because it erodes the process.
[2]In the Sunday 6 July 2009, edition of the New York Times Magazine, Martins published an expanded photo essay entitled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age".
The essay has since been removed from the website, replaced with a statement that "[e]ditors later confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show".
"[5]Martins has also claimed that he did not, in fact, represent to The New York Times that his photo essay would be produced without any manipulation, making statements that "on 24 June 2009, two days prior to the project being published, I emailed The New York Times a synopsis of the work describing it as 'a study that goes beyond pure formal investigation and documentation'[5] and that there was “a clear misunderstanding concerning the values and rights associated to the creative process which made a publication like The New York Times Magazine, commission a fine-artist, such as myself, to depict a very specific view of reality without taking all the necessary measures to ensure that I was aware of its journalistic parameters and limits.”[5] Between August and November 2009 several philosophers, writers and curators spoke out on the matter, publicly supporting the artist, his work and the discussion which it ignited.