Martin Magntorn, bor och arbetar som konstnär I Malmö. I sina arbeten blandar han fotografi, skulptur, text och arkivmaterial. Tematiken kretsar kring identitet, förskjutningar och förställning. Han har en Bachelor i fotografi från Högskolan för Fotografi i Göteborg och en Master i Fotografi från Akademin Valand i Göteborg. Martins verk finns representerade hos Statens Konstråd, Region Malmö och Lunds Kommuns samling. I suppose you could say, I knew my father quite well.A self-made man with a stable career. The perfectsalesman, an estate agent possessing a developedpsychological knowledge of how people think – andhow to make people believe that they were makingthe decisions – when it was always him pulling thestrings. I mean he was a good father, but sometimesyou could get really annoyed when he was playingthose same tricks at home.Near the end of his career I followed him to workin an attempt to get a more complete impression ofhim, photographing him and his personal belongings. We spent a lot of time together, just the twoof us. Though I didn’t really know what it was I waslooking for.A few years later at my father’s funeral I was struckby the realisation that his friends seemed to hold aquite different view of him. Not quite the somewhatrestrained family patriarch, but more of a gamblerand a joker.I found the missing pieces in my parents’ old familyphoto albums. In the snapshots he was more of anactor playing a role in different scenes, it’s stagedphotography and he is always acutely aware of thecamera, even if he doesn’t always show it.I miss him, and my daughter, with whom he alwaysseemed to have a more relaxed and playful relationship, has had a really hard time dealing with his death. However, I feel that there is still time left for me toplay about with my father, and by now I know thathe would have appreciated my light-hearted remakeof him. He was born in another time and had tocarry on his father’s business, but I know that hehad other dreams too and so I seek to show off hisother talents.