Piece description from the artist
This handcrafted b&w film image depicts a safety refuge inside an historic train tunnel. Refuge insets like the one pictured were constructed about every twenty feet inside the brick tunnel for the purpose of sheltering in the event of a passing train. The structure is over a century old and still an active train passage. It's very dark in the part of the tunnel where I took this photograph which required a lens with a large maximum aperture as well as high speed film.
Johnny Martyr is an East Coast documentary photographer who handcrafts, black & white lifestyle images. Martyr's photography can be found in periodicals such as Marie Claire, Huffington Post, & Buzzfeed; on the gallery walls of ArtistAngle & The Delaplaine; as well as the social media of Kodak Professional. He graduated Villa Julie College with a BS in Film, Video & Theatre in 2003 & was a wedding photographer at Bradley Images from 2001 to 2004. Martyr took production stills & covered news events for Erickson Living from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he teamed up with Stephanie Lee to form Martyr & Lee Photography. He has been a freelance author for Petapixel since 2018. Martyr has photographed politicians including Bill & Hillary Clinton; musicians Veruca Salt & comedian Nikki Glaser. When he’s not shooting, Johnny Martyr collects Night of the Living Dead trading cards & enjoys drinking absinthe while listening to 80's & 90's brit pop.
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