About Robin

I make photographs at the edge of human presence and the natural world — places where beauty, damage, and resilience coexist.

Much of my work begins in landscapes shaped by use: farmland, industrial margins, ritual sites, forgotten infrastructure. I’m drawn to environments where nature is still present, but altered — where belief and labour have left their marks, and where the land holds its history quietly, like sediment.

Across long-term projects including Bastard Countryside, Apiary, and The Autophagy of Us, I return to the same questions: what do we leave behind, what do we build over, and what continues despite us? I’m less interested in events than in atmosphere — in residue, tension, and the slow accumulation of meaning over time.

I grew up between Australia and the south coast of England, and now work from my studio at the Old Needlemakers in Lewes — a Victorian building where the prints are produced, handled, and prepared. I’m drawn to photography as a physical object as much as an image, and during lockdown I taught myself to make frames, something I now offer on request. Before you enter the studio, a small gallery space is open to the public — a place where I test ideas and share work in progress.

Alongside photography, my practice occasionally extends into collaboration across disciplines. This includes Winged Bull in the Elephant Case, a film made in collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor for the BBC, filmed inside the National Gallery — an exploration of how photographic sensibility can intersect with movement, performance, and space.

My photographs are produced as limited-edition prints and published in book form, with each body of work sequenced to unfold as an immersive experience — something to live with, return to, and slowly inhabit.