Martin’s Biography

Art interested me from childhood, and I began a career with photographs made on film in 1988. I established both a commercial photography business and a film processing / printing laboratory. I wanted my finished images defined by the end-to-end actions that went into the act of creating.

It didn’t take long to realise that artists need business skills to thrive. Alongside work and family commitments, I attended the University of Nottingham Business School. In 1994 received a Master of Business Administration in management and marketing.

With the rise of digital camera systems in the early 1990s, I sold the laboratory in 1996. I moved to a career in digitalisation, where I developed a profession for the next twenty-four years. This led to global head of marketing and sales for a Division, and leading sales operations for the CAC 40 Group.

Digital now fuels the greatest age of fine art photography since its conception. In 2018 I resigned my Executive Vice President job with the corporation. I established Martin Urch Photography to again concentrate artistic passion through visual arts. My business provides commercial and fine art photography, specialising in maritime and hospitality brands.

Throughout the last decade I also visited urban and rural parts of India many times. My empathy for India's cultures led me to produce photojournalism about the need to protect its special places and customs. I am now a Trustee of Tigers4Ever, who work to give India’s wild tigers a wild future.