Martyn Aim's background is as an anthropologist. He has an MA Visual Anthropology, with training in documentary film and photography, and an MPhil in Social Anthropology, specialising in conflict and human rights. As an ethnographer, he spent a year documenting the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations peoples of western Canada, living in isolated reserve communities. Martyn now works as a freelance photojournalist and won a scholarship to attend the Foundry Photo Workshop 09' in India. He is available for editorial and NGO assignments.
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Canada: Salmon and Cedar
By Martyn Aim
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 23 June 2010
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The author Victor Hugo wrote that, “anywhere one can dream is good, provided the place is obscure, and the horizon is vast”. The west coast of Vancouver Island, the furthest western point of Canada is such a place. To do justice to this mythic landscape is near impossible, but few writers and artists who visited [...]

The Indian Himalaya: Trouble in Paradise
By Martyn Aim
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 17 March 2010
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The north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh lies at the foothills of the Himalayas. Manali, a tourist town in the Kullu Valley is the set-off point for trekkers, spiritual seekers, and hedonists drawn by the promise of cheap high quality marijuana in an idyllic setting. Many never leave.

Despite this influx of foreigners, it is Indians [...]

Cambodia: Darkness Falls
By Martyn Aim
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 28 January 2010
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Tuol Sleng (S-21) Prison was created by order of the Khmer Rouge chief, Pol Pot on April 17th, 1975. The former Toul Svay High School classrooms were turned into interrogation rooms and cells 0.8 by 2 metres square.
S-21 was designed for detention, interrogation and torture. Once prisoners’ confessions were received and documented they were sent [...]