He is currently a doctoral candidate at Griffith University and teaches in the photographic department at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University. His works have been exhibited internationally at the Hong Kong Art Fair, Photo Paris, Hous Projects in New York and Photo LA. He has been awarded the Veolia Prize, the Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship and the Prometheus Award. In 2008 he released a monograph titled “Martin Smith, photographs, In response to.”