BIO
Chrissy Martinez is an award winning/published wildlife and underwater photographer based out of Gainesville, Florida just a short drive from the springs capital of the world. She was born at the beach in Caracas, Venezuela and where her love for the ocean and wildlife were in the cards from the very beginning.
She is most at home out in nature and focused on creating images and storytelling around water issues in Florida and all over the world. Documenting the despair as well as the hope. She spends all of her free time out on her paddle board that is strong enough to carry all of her equipment through long days into the night on the water.
She loves sharing stories from out in the field. In addition to creating traditional prints she also specializes in creating large scale photo murals for business's that can be printed both inside and the outside of buildings. You can see her largest piece that covers the 17 by 19 foot wall in the DMV in Gainesville, Florida. She enjoys seeing how her work can transform the feeling of a space and so do the business's that she works with.
Currently creating stories and images on the ancestral lands of the Timucua, Mascogo, Miccosukee and Seminoles.
Featured
USOA best of 2023
Journal of Wildlife Photography
1st in the Marine Life and Conservation
National Wildlife Federation
Live Wildly Florida
Live Wildly Florida
Photographers Without Borders
Photographers Without Borders
Sony
Harn Museum of Art
Best of Gainesville Magazine
Our Town Magazine
Magazine Cover & Article Baby Animals
Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls
Massage Magazine
Reflexology
Gainesville Sun
Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls
Florida Wildlife Corridor
Photo Contest Judge 2021
NPR/WUFT/PBS
Exhibitions
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
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State of Wonder with the Danscompany of Gainesville.
April 8, 2023
April 6, 2024
Cork Arts District
Jacksonville, Florida
Wild Florida Exhibition -Floribunda
April 2024
Gainesville Fine Arts Association
Sweetberries , 2019
Speaker
Florida Wildlife & Landscapes Talk 2021 online
2022 talk in person part of Museum Nights!
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Awards
USOA best of 2023
1st in the Marine Life &
Conservation
National Wildlife Federation
Peoples Choice
Runner Up 2022
Journal of Wildlife Photography
Photographers Without Borders Through Your Lens Revolutionary photo contest.
Photographers Without Borders Micro-Grant
Florida State Parks Photo Contest
GFAA (Sweetberries)
Gainesville, Fl - 2019