"DUMBO" Photograph

Elevate the Ordinary It wasn’t until my freshman year in college that someone put a name—“dyslexia”— to the years of difficulty I had with reading, writing, and other left-brain skills, which I still struggle with today. Fortunately, a sympathetic lab teacher taught me to focus on the visual and mechanical aspects of whatever I was studying, which enabled me to function using a different perspective. Over the years, I have come to realize that this coping mechanism has also made me a better photographer. Rather than just looking at the image in the camera, I naturally search for other perspectives, other ways of seeing what is ordinary. Each artist makes his or her world their own and, in doing so, takes the viewer to this higher perspective. To take us from here to somewhere else. While I enjoyed working with traditional film, the advent of digital photography has created opportunities for me to express what I feel and see in the new world of Fine Art photography. Bob's photographs are in private galleries in Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn, NY; Wales UK; Saigon, Vietnam and Bangkok, Thailand. Most recently, Bob's work for Prevention of Human Trafficking has been published by the Child Protection and Development Center and the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand. Several of Bob's photographs have won awards and have been published in national and trade magazines. His photographic travels include the Southwestern and Northwestern United States and the Canadian Rockies, as well as Europe, China and Southeast Asia.