Diva Martinez Media

10/09/2023

me watching you from across the room

09/19/2023

35 weeks

08/13/2023

30 weeks today. 10 more weeks to go.

07/10/2023

25 weeks = 6.25 months. In the home stretch now 🫡

Leaving Miami today, I didn’t hang out with any friends and spent 2 weeks inside finishing Survivor (been watching every season ever lol)

Needed this time to be by myself and gather my thoughts and s**t. Also, quite frankly, I hate Miami and I always have, I don’t like the people and I have always felt like an alien in the city I grew up in. They say your first pregnancy is like going through a 2nd adolescence and being here brought up so many feelings of what it was like to be a teenage girl here. Good riddance to the past. And hello to a new future. 🫶🏽

07/06/2023

a story in 4 images ❤️🫡

06/28/2023

03/09/2023

The illusion of photography, fact or fiction.

More parties that never happened but could have been.

03/06/2023

What even is the act of creation?

Tune in to find out more this week on Video Pictures!

07/14/2022

The Great Illusion.

05/17/2022

This photo was taken while I was in Bar Harbor, Maine last year. I just got to editing it yesterday. I didn’t want to look through those images for a long time. But with enough time passing, it’s almost like looking through different eyes.

I feel more comfortable with myself as a photographer lately so right now in my own personal work I’m experimenting and just trying to have fun. Rules are important but they can also deter your creativity. I feel confident in my color correcting abilities by now, way more than ever before honestly. Sometimes I see past edits I made on a photo and go 😬😬 lol. But right now, it’s like, getting to that base where I know it looks accurate and the way it looked the way I saw it, or close enough, but then just doing whatever I feel like it, playing around in Photoshop again like being a teenager and discovering this magic (sometimes lol) software all over again.

Tomorrow is the last school day of the semester for me and I’ve spent the last few months making videos and missing being creative with my camera *in my way*. But these last few months I have learned a lot when it comes to film stuff and that’s made me just feel like I want to take more photos too??? I think it’s primarily the feeling of starting to *really* feel confidence in your abilities. Imposter syndrome and stuff is obviously still a thing but it’s not the same as the feeling of not knowing what you’re doing?

I don’t think anyone will read this far so if you did, live long and prosper dear friend.

Just a quick ramble before I go back to editing this final project. 🤡

05/09/2022

window shopping

05/05/2022

My first blog post!

Tips for choosing an outdoor shooting location in new York City

04/09/2022

04/09/2022

04/09/2022

03/06/2022

Tonight!

Showing work alongside some fellow CUNY LaGuardia photo students at the .gallery

6-9 pm.

Anything Goes curated by

Flyer by

02/21/2022

I have to approach things differently now. I can no longer continue to live as if there isn’t anything inherently wrong with me or my body. It’s incredibly important to me that I keep using my camera and continue on my path of documentation. Without it I would truly be nothing.