2024
Art & Architect’s Magazine
”They Persisted: A new exhibition tells the story of three American women of Japanese descent and expands the story of American Art” article highlighting the exhibition,
”Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo,” at Smithsonian American Art Museum, featuring my collection photographs of paintings by Miné Okubo and Hisako Hibi (December 2024).
Photo by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
The Washington Post
”Sweeping SAAM exhibit explores race and power through sculpture” article with my photograph of Greek Slave by Hiram Powers for “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum (December 2024).
Photo by Lucia RM Martino and Tucker Garrison, Smithsonian Institution.
The Washington Post
”On the anniversary of Tommie Smith’s protest, a sculpture brings it to life” article featuring photograph by myself and Tucker Garrison (October 2024).
The Architect’s Newspaper
”Glenn Kaino’s Bridge, an homage to Tommie Smith’s Olympic protest, debuts at Smithsonian American Art Museum” (July 2024).
Photo by Lucia RM Martino.
Smartify App
Exhibit panel photographs of Smartify app for “The Shape of Power” audio guide (November 2024). Collection photographs, including detail cover image, of Glenn Kaino’s Bridge installation sculpture for Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” exhibition audio guide (October 2024).
Smithsonian Magazine
Photographs by myself and Tucker Garrison were featured as the cover image and within the article “Tommie Smith’s Raised Fist at the 1968 Olympics Inspired a Massive Golden Sculpture That Signifies the Art of His Protest” (July 2024).
Photo by Lucia RM Martino and Tucker Garrison, Smithsonian Institution.
Photo by Lucia RM Martino and Tucker Garrison, Smithsonian Institution.
SciTechDaily
”Exploring Earth’s Climate Shifts: From Ice Ages to Heatwaves Over 485 Million Years” article featuring photograph of Fossil Palm Leaf, Sabalites specimen (September 2024).
Smithsonian Magazine
”In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years” (September 2024)
”Inclusive Innovations: An Accessible Natural History Experience” (July 2024)
Smithsonian Events Art Bites Gallery Talk
Collection photography image for gallery talk & tour webpage. “Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one tells us about an ever-changing culture in the United States” (April 2024).
“Manhattan” by Georgia O’Keeffe. Photo by Lucia RM Martino and Eliza Macdonald, Smithsonian Institution.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Manhattan”
My collection/art reproduction photography featured in:
• Ann Pickett Studio & Gallery’s “GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: ‘MY NEW YORKS’” (June 2024)
• Hyperallergic’s ”First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago” (September 2024)
• Artsy’s ”When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted the New York City Skyline” (August 2024)
WUSA9 News, Science
”Smithsonian's Allosaurus fossil is now the scientific standard for the prehistoric predator” (April 2024).
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Instagram
Collection photography for PAFA’s social media about artist, Miné Okubo (March 2024).
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Newsletter
My photograph for ”This Week at Natural History” email newsletter article, “Why Don’t Humans Have Tails?” (March 2024).
2023
DC Furies Rugby
Event photography of the Washington Women’s Rugby Football Club (DC Furies) 45th Gala celebration in Washington, DC and featured on their website (September 2023).
Smithsonian American Art Museum on Instagram
Museum collection photography featured in SAAM’s Instagram posts (2023):
• Tiffany Chung, “reconstructing an exodus history: boat trajectories from Vietnam and flight routes from refugee camps and of ODP cases,” 2020
• Hisako Hibi, “Floating Clouds,” 1944
• Andrew Clemens, “Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle),” 1883
• Judith Schaechter, “The Birth of Eve,” 2013
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Blog, SAAM Stories
• “The Wonder and Precision of Sand Art” (January 2023)
• “Historic New Acquisitions by Two Trailblazing Japanese American Painters: A closer look at the art of Hisako Hibi and Matsusaburo Hibi” (May 2023)
Smithsonian Magazine
• “Celebrate Valentine’s Day With the Ocean’s Oddest Couples and More Natural History Programs This February” (February 2023)
• Exhibition and museum collection photography featured in “2022 in Review: The Year’s Top Discoveries by Museum Researchers” (January 2023)
2022
Washington Post
• Museum collection photography of the Time Collection at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in “National Portrait Gallery exhibition looks at Watergate 50 years later” (April 2022).
Smithsonian Magazine
Museum collection and exhibition photography featured in:
• “Meet the Smithsonian Director Bringing a Deep Time Perspective to the International Climate Discussion” (December 2022)
• “The 50 Million-Year-Old Treasures of Fossil Lake” (September 2022)
• “Five Places to See Trilobites in the United States” (June 2022)
2021
National Gallery of Art Branding Project
I photographed models for the Gallery’s rebranding launch alongside a team of art directors and images were used in advertising, commercial media, and branding materials across Washington, DC (launched on May 14, 2021).
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, courtesy of National Gallery of Art.
Ad campaign mock up (second from the left) portrays photography and advertising editing by Lucia RM Martino, courtesy of National Gallery of Art and Pentagram. Graphic design and art direction by Pentagram.
Smithsonian Magazine
Museum collection and exhibition photography featured in:
• “What We’ve Discovered About the ‘Tyrant Lizard King’ Since the Nation’s T. rex Was Unearthed” (September 2021)
• “Sign Your Students Up for a Natural History Crash Course This Fall” (August 2021)
• “Ten More Smithsonian Museums Will Be Opening This Summer” (May 2021)
• “Meet the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s New Head of Education, Outreach and Visitor Experience” (May 2021)
• “What Fossil Plants Reveal About Climate Change” (April 2021)
• “How the World’s Largest Aquamarine Gem Came to Be” (March 2021)
• “New Way to Study Magnetic Fossils Could Help Unearth Their Origins” (February 2021)
• “How Arctic Anthropologists are Expanding Narratives about the North” (January 2021)
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino.
Washingtonian Magazine
Photograph of Katharina Fritsch's "Hahn/Cock" in this article to announce the art piece as a new gift to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, USA. In 2021 and 2022, this photograph was in the top 100 searched for images in the National Gallery of Art’s internal digital asset management system (2021-2022).
Cara Elvira’s YouTube Channel “Unconditional Positive Reg(ART)”
I was a guest on Cara Elvira’s channel where we discussed my profession as a museum photographer (July 2021).
“… Lucia shares about pursuing photography education on Kodak's stomping grounds in Rochester, NY, opting into the internship route post-undergrad, and what it meant to resign from volunteering. Lucia explains 5 subcategories within museum photography, the many logistics photographers coordinate beyond taking a photo, and why the museums care so much about the metadata…” –Cara Elvira
Cara Elvira Salvatore, Social Work Graduate Student / YouTuber. Video editing by Angela Salvatore.
2020
PBS News Hour
Images for article about the “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” exhibition at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for PBS News (March 2020).
National Gallery of Art
A clever (and hilarious!) use of my photograph of Kay Rosen’s SORRY (and Henry Moore’s Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece) for the “404 Page Not Found” webpage on NGA’s website (2020–Present).
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino [screenshot from intranet], courtesy of National Gallery of Art.
National Gallery of Art Intranet
My photograph of I. M. Pei’s “Crystals” was NGA’s intranet banner from March 2020 through summer 2021. They were lit up blue to show support to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021).
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian 2020: Treasures from the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar
Collection photograph of the Xenacanthus sp. for the Smithsonian day planner during the week of Halloween (2020).
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel
Photographs of the Key Marco Cat statuette and photographs of the creation and installation of the Megalodon model were portrayed in the first episode of “Smithsonian Cares” featuring NMNH Office of Photo & Media (May 2020).
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
[screenshot from YouTube video]
Smithsonian Magazine
Collection and exhibition photography featured in:
• “Seven Free Natural History Programs Streaming in December” (November 2020)
• “‘One Health’ Could Prevent the Next Coronavirus Outbreak” (February 2020)
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Product photography for informative article on e-cigarettes, what these products are, and how they are harmful (2020).
2019
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (2019)
My photographs of the Deep Time Exhibition and collection are available on NMNH’s website as downloadable computer backgrounds.
NMNH Diplodocus specimen (2019)
My exhibition and collection photography featured in:
• dcist
• Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (ESCONI)
• Frommer’s Smithsonian Museums in Washington, DC Travel Guide
• Science News Journal
• The Kojo Nnamdi Show (and featuring other exhibition and collection photography)
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Fred Cochard, and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Magazine
Museum collection photography featured in:
• “How Dan the Zebra Stopped an Ill-Fated Government Breeding Program in Its Tracks” (December 2019)
• “New App Takes Smithsonian Visitors Beyond Visuals” (November 2019)
• “How Scientists Resolved the Mystery of the Devil’s Corkscrews” (November 2019)
• “Smithsonian Puts Backstage Fossil Preparation Center Stage in its New Fossil Hall” (October 2019)
• “How Do Fossils Form?” (June 2019)
• “Amid All the Fossils, Smithsonian’s New Dinosaur Exhibition Tells the Complex Story of Life” (June 2019)
• “Meet the Dinos of ‘Deep Time’” (June 2019)
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on Twitter
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Catalogue number A448802, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World Exhibit
Catalogue object photography for exhibit website and online catalogue. Photo credit acknowledgments (2019-Present).
Smithsonian Institution Intranet
Exhibition photography of Deep Time exhibit at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for Smithsonian’s main education page about the exhibit (2019).
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Then & Now
Photograph of the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time exhibition hall in 2019 for Smithsonian’s article celebrating Smithsonian’s 173rd “birthday”.
Photograph (and composite editing) by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
SI Newsdesk
New media, press release, specimen, and collection photography of Fossil Palm Leaf (Sabalites sp.) on Smithsonian’s website (May 2019).
Photo by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Collections photography for the Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture museum exhibition and online gallery (2020).
2018
The Archaeological Conservancy
Announcement for the newest issue of the American Archaeology Magazine (Winter 2018-2019), including my photograph as the cover of the magazine.
Photograph by James Di Loreto, Lucia RM Martino, and Fred Cochard, Smithsonian Institution.
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World Exhibit
Photographs of exhibit and specimens (2018):
• Smithsonian Insider
• NMNH website
• ScienceNews
• SI.edu
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Fossil Whale Teeth on Twitter
Photograph of fossil whale teeth for NMNH researcher, Carlos Peredo, reporting on his work on his website and Twitter (June 2018).
“Untitled (African House)” by Clementine Hunter (painting), Photograph by Lucia RM Martino.
Smithsonian Magazine
Conservation photography of Clementine Hunter paintings for article, documentation, and researching the signature to determine authenticity (October 2018).
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators on GNSI.org
Rotating homepage photo of the 2018 conference group photo (previous link to image) in the main rotunda at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (2018-Present).
Photo by James Di Loreto, Kate D. Sherwood, and Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on Twitter
Behind-the-scenes appreciation posts 6 months before opening of the #DeepTime exhibit (2018).
2017
Photograph by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Magazine
Photography of specimens for the researcher and an article about Baleen Samples from Bowhead Whales (2017).
Smithsonian Magazine & PBS News Hour Video
Photography by Lucia RM Martino, James Di Loreto, and Kate D. Sherwood of Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend exhibit for article and exhibit introduction on PBS News Hour (2017).
2016
National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Interim Report
"The Digitization Specialist" story about my work digitizing the Time Collection (2016).
See full report here
2015
Photograph by Lucia Martino, 2013.
"Photography and Death"
Written by Lucia RM Martino for project End Rape Now (2015).
“Photography Saved My Life.” was the title of the article, as my eyes buzzed over the overwhelmingly white screen. I was poking around the internet, particularly on a soothing website called Elephant Journal, multi-tasking and not wholly paying attention to one thing. I hesitate to click on the article because I wasn’t in the mood to be reading anything serious. Yet, for some reason I found myself to the next page; it read: “Death isn’t the easiest concept to grasp…”
I swear, my heart stopped. This one had me.