Brando Martinez (Credit: Brando Martinez) BOSTON - Photographer Brando Martinez loves capturing athletes as they push beyond their limits, something he’s familiar with after being devastatingly injured as an infant in a house fire.
Martinez, 20, was seven months old when a fire ripped through his family’s home in Guatemala, leaving him with severe scarring and the loss of his arm and fingers."It caused burns [to] 50% of my body, leading to the amputation of my left arm because of a bad infection," he told FOX Television Stations Sunday. "One of my family members was brave enough to go and get me out of there."Martinez said he doesn’t remember the incident and never had to adjust to his disabilities.