About the Artist

Robert Turner has been working professionally with a camera for more than thirty-five years. Before turning to still photography and video art he worked in film.  As president of Spectrum Films, Inc. he shot on locations from the high Andes of Peru to the streets of Manhattan.

He and his partners wrote and directed more than sixty non-fiction films. Their productions were honored with forty-six national and international film festival awards.

Bob now applies his creative energies to large-format landscape photography, video art, and other forms of camera-based visual imagery.  His work has been featured in museum, art fair, and gallery shows, and hangs in private collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia.  His prints also reside in numerous corporate collections, including those of  Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, Stanford Health, and ResMed.  His images are identified by their strong composition, rich use of color, and sense of depth.

The traveling exhibit, ROBERT TURNER: RARE PLACES IN RARE LIGHT, was hosted in by the Harvard Museum of Natural History as well as venues in San Diego, Cleveland, Los Angeles, the Napa Valley and Cody, Wyoming.

Bob was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its Boston Pops mode to create a montage of ninety-seven of his landscape photographs for projection on a forty-five foot screen above the Boston Symphony Hall stage during two live performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony.  As an outgrowth of this project, he has returned to his roots in moving pictures to produce a video in 4K  resolution that expands the Boston montage to include new images.

His most recent work is a series of five high-resolution art videos—short pieces built from abstract elements using animation techniques.  They run three to five minutes each and have music tracks by twentieth and twenty-first century composers including Bela Bartok, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arvo Part, and Charles Mingus.  The music is timed to and reinforces the moving visual images.  One includes spoken word.  The series is designed for an immersive experience in a darkened video installation.

Bob grew up steeped in the art of the New York museum world as well as the natural history of the forests of northern New Jersey and the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.  He studied fine art and anthropology at the University of Colorado.

After college he lived and worked in highland Peru for several years.  He lives with his wife in Del Mar, California.