Adrian Martinez is a photographer and independent publisher based out of San Francisco, CA.
Martinez draws inspiration from the Bay Area’s rich photographic history and its present-day community of practitioners. His work has been featured in Open Space (SFMOMA) and the British Journal of Photography, and has been exhibited in various group presentations including Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography at SFMOMA. In early 2023, he presented a body of work alongside Austin Leong and Henry Wessel in an exhibition titled With Soft Eyes at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. A companion publication titled Soft Eyes was released in late 2024 by Deadbeat Club.
In 2016 Martinez founded illetante books, an independent publishing imprint, as a vehicle through which to collaborate with local artists and colleagues. Examples of his publishing work were included in the 2019 exhibition Printed Publics: Contemporary Art and Design Publishing in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He also co-directs Book & Job Gallery, a photographer-run studio, darkroom, and gallery space in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
Martinez is currently an MFA candidate at California College of the Arts (expected 2026).
Contact: adrianfmartinez7@gmail.com