Martin Del Busto
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Martin Del Busto

Photographer & ArchivistLondon, United Kingdom
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Martin Del Busto
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Martin Del Busto

Photographer & ArchivistLondon, United Kingdom
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  • Music Photographer
    Music PhotographerUnder the pseudonym “ANCLA”, I document concerts and festivals with the aim of highlighting our current music scene and its impact on the youth. My main intention is to visually translate the energy of each room. The artist-fan relationship is palpable in every venue. Sometimes tender, sometimes aggressive but always unifying. It’s very strange to walk out of a music show feeling the same way as you came in. The project quickly turned into a personal perspective of what youth meant for me. I was
  • Archive digitization - Photo and video archive
    Archive digitization - Photo and video archiveIn 2021, I worked in a digital restoration of an old basque shipyard for the Maritime Museum of Bilbao. We had a big challenge: Finding old material ( 35mm negatives, spare images, technical plans and Super 8/16mm film cans containing boat launchings) then scanning them in high definition, retouching and designing a museum stand. I was in charge of scanning prints and retouching negatives, working closely with the professionals who remastered the film stock at the Basque Film Library and editing
  • FLYSCH
    FLYSCH“FLYSCH” is a photographic project based around Bilbao’s metallurgical history and its impact on the basque landscape. The title refers to a layered rock formation found in the basque coast and an old German word that means “to melt”. During the XX century, the main industrial activity in Bilbao was metallurgy. The iron mineral was transformed into finished metallic products in three stages: roasting, melting and refining. The iron sheets were later exported and this led to the creation of qua