Martin Nangle began his career for the national and international media during the Northern Ireland conflict. His secondment to Associated Press London bureau took him to Berlin, Jerusalem, Damascus, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq, Cairo, and later Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He documented the early years of post-Communism, the secessionist Wars in Yugoslavia and later photographed daily life in Burma and UK. His early work from Belfast is in the permanent collection of the Ulster Museum.