[1][2] Martin's first work experiences in New Zealand were in farming and operating a school in Northland region town, Maungaturoto.

Martin has also been published in the Auckland Weekly News,[4] New Zealand Illustrated[5] and exhibited photographs at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.

An exert from his obituary in The New Zealand Herald reads: Mr. Martin was a man of many parts, social, artistic, and scientific.

Probably Mr. Martin's photographs did more to bring the Rotomahana Terraces and other thermal wonders of the Auckland Province under the notice of the world than any other medium.

[8] New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16350, 3 October 1916In 1958 his three daughters donated his collection of negatives to the Auckland Institute and Museum.

[9] Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery and the British Museum also house collections of Martin's photographic works.