Against the ruin of the world
there is but one defense ---
the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth



It seems there is a scratched and hazy plastic camera viewfinder in many of our childhoods. With the hand-me-down camera dangling from our neck on a plastic strap, we pointed and clicked the world – family vacations, best friends, parties, pets. Robert found himself taking more and more time before pushing the button to find a way to somehow arrange the objects in the rectangle before his eye in a more … interesting … way. To feel something.

The still or movie camera remained before his face and “interesting” redefined itself through the periods of time ... high speed juvenile jumps and crashes on bicycles and skateboards; inside waves at dawn; in the stench of a sterile autopsy room; a man and woman becoming mother and father as they held their breath for the first cry; chasing wild fires at 4 a.m., sleeping in a car in a silent winter Yosemite valley, seeing a Coke can for the first time.

Today, Robert enjoys creating revealing portraits, band images and city found-art. He hopes you find them interesting, and most of all, he hopes they make you feel.

Robert earned a Bachelor of Arts in photography at Brooks Institute and a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Enginering. He lives and works in Santa Barbara.