Martin Gray
Martin Gray
Anthropologist and photographer
American anthropologist and National Geographic photographer Martin Gray has spent more than 20 years studying sacred sites around the world. He photographed more than 1,000 sacred sites in some 80 countries for his exhaustive coffee table tome, Sacred Earth: Places of Peace and Power.
Archaeology and photography were his father's hobbies, while his mother was fascinated by classical music and painting. His early years were, therefore, immersed in the arts and antiquities of foreign cultures.
Gray went on to develop a multi-projector slide show that communicates both the beauty and precarious situation of many sacred sites. During the past fifteen years, he has presented this slide show to more than 125,000 people at museums, universities and conferences around the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. The slide show became the foundation for his Places of Peace and Power website, which has received more than 25 million visitors since 1997.
