Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé

Role

Martine Hamilton Knight DLitt(hon), FHEA, FRPS is a Senior Lecturer at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé in the School of Art & Design and author of Photography for Architects (2024) Routledge. She has taught part time on the BA programme since 2018 and is a member of the university's Design Research Centre.

As a professional architectural photographer and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, 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 and her area of research is currently concerned with the impact of AI generative images on the built environment. She is the current External Examiner for BA (hons) Photography at Norwich University of The Arts.

.

Career overview

With a long established Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé business, Martine is an award winning independent  and author of (Routledge), shortlisted for The Architectural Book Awards 2024. Across 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: Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈéshire, published by Yale University Press. The final Buildings of England: Staffordshire was published in July 2024.

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé in 2012 in recognition of her work, lectures across the UK for The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and runs workshops for The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and Line & Light.

External activity

• Speaker: Architecture and The Built Environment Seen Through the Eye of the Lens and AI - Does it Matter Which? The Image Conference, InterAmerican University, Buenos Aires (2024)
• 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  - 2025)
• Specialist workshops with the Department of Architecture and The Built Environment, University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (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

• Shortlisted in The British Photography Awards (2024)
• 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 Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (2012) for services to photography
• Assessor for the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA Awards (2009)
• Winner of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé 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, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (2022)
• 25 years of architecture through the viewfinder - Bromley House Library, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (2015)
• Hopkins in Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé : Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé on Camera - RIBA and Nottm Trent University (2014)
• RIBA 50/50 - RIBA Touring show – various East Midlands venues (2011)
• Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Impression - Ninbgo Museum - China (2009)
• Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Revealed - Lakeside Arts Centre, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (2007)
• One City; One Hundred Years - The Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé (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.