Where We Bloom is Martin’s photojournalistic tribute to the boundless joy, beauty, and resilience of the Black experience across the globe. Captured in vibrant cities, quiet villages, and unexpected corners of the world, each image reflects a moment where Black life bursts forth in laughter, connection, celebration, and ease.

This collection does not seek to explain or defend Black existence, it simply honors it. In faces filled with light, in bodies in motion, in stillness and in celebration, we witness what it means to belong everywhere. These are not portraits of survival, but of thriving. Of living fully, unapologetically, and joyfully even in spaces not originally built to hold us.

Rooted in nostalgia and bathed in warmth, Where We Bloom invites viewers to feel, rather than analyze. To remember that joy can be sacred. That our smiles are history. That happiness, for us, is not frivolous, but generational healing.

This is the beauty of blooming wherever we are planted. This is the joy that travels with us.