Robert Holden is a photographer, journeyer, and environmentalist. His work revolves around the humanistic idea of travel. The journey and the encounter are his main themes. His photographic approach is subjective and emotional. Many of his projects are based on reality but often combine a personal narrative, and are "symbolic of today's evolutionary development, straddling between reportage photography and art with a social message."
In 2011, his series, The Treehouse, was installed as a non-profit exhibition of large-scale prints on building façades in DUMBO, Brooklyn, curated by Vamos Architects in conjunction with the
New York Photo Festival
The New York Photo Festival was founded in January 2007 by Frank Evers and Daniel Power in an effort to establish a U.S. photo festival dedicated to the "future of contemporary photography" and to the exposure of new works. It takes place every ...
.
He contributes regularly, with his editorial work, to select international publications.
Travel photography
Since 2007, Holden's style has evolved from documenting specific editorial assignments to photographing his travel experience through an intuitive, non-descriptive, and narrative style. This is most present in the freehand photographic editorials for ''Air France Magazine'' when he traveled with French writers such as Elisabeth Barillé,
Stephane Audeguy, François Simon, and
Marc Lambron
Marc Lambron (; born 4 February 1957 in Lyon) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for ''L'Oeil du silence''.
Bibliography
* ''Les Menteurs''
* ''L'Impromptu de Madrid'', (Flammarion, 1989)
* ''L'Œil du silence'' (1993)
* '' ...
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His photographic style—along with that of a few other photographers—has led to a visual redefinition of travel photography in France "… allowing us to soar in thought. They are heirs of
Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography.Jane Liv ...
and
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography involving bold, saturated colours. A pivotal figure o ...
, the offspring of still and moving image, and are born out of poetry and disillusionment."
[Natacha Wolinsky, ''Mois de la Photo Paris'' 2008.]
Bibliography
*Philippe-Michel Thibault and Anaïs Leclerc, ''Air France L'Art Du Voyage'', (Paris:
Découvertes Gallimard
(, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an Collection (publishing), editorial collection of Book illustration, illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in Pocket edition, ...
vol. 535, 2008).
References
External links
Official Website
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)