Commercial & Industrial Photography

Robert has been a professional photographer since 1983, and has owned various photography businesses since 1985. His earliest photographic memories revolve around his father’s darkroom in Labrador in the mid 1960's. His true love of photography began with his first medium format camera that was a gift from his parents in 1975.

“I was active in the Photo Club at Prince of Wales Collegiate, but we always had a better darkroom at home.”

In his second and third year of a cartography program at Memorial University, Robert was exposed to the “science of photography” in the university Remote Sensing Lab. “I was hooked” Robert said. “I knew from the moment that I picked up my first Hasselblad camera, that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.” Robert worked at CameraMUN until 1985 when he and another CameraMUN photographer started Campro Photography.

In 1992 Robert and his wife, Lynn, purchased a studio and lab building on Pennywell Rd. in St. John’s where Robert operated a professional services lab called The Photo Studio. In 1996 they opened Celebrity Photo Studio and continue to operate Celebrity at there current location in the TD Place on Water Street in St. John’s.

As a professional photography business, Robert’s company is locally known for dramatic and documentary style Industrial Photography, for Commercial Portraits and publicity / advertising photography.  “The business of photography is all about the client. It is very technical, you have to interpret the client’s artistic concept and use your own technical skills to achieve their vision.” Robert says. “Whether it’s underground in a mine, climbing around an offshore oil rig or shooting from an open door of a helicopter, I always aim to capture something extraordinary.”

Robert shoots industrial photography using one of the worlds most incredible and high resolution camera systems. The Hasselblad H4D-40 is arguably the biggest, sharpest and most versatile industrial camera in Atlantic Canada. Augmented with 7 Hasselblad / Zeiss lenses, Robert can capture everything from intricate detail on small products to striking, dramatic details of massive architectural construction. Always looking for new and magical ways to light his subject, Robert relies on all the latest soft and hard technology. He combines a quarter of a centaury of experience with a constant thirst for new and innovative ways to craft his images.

Robert is a member of the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC), Editorial Photographers (EP), The Adobe Photographers Directory, The St. John’s Board of Trade and is a board member of The Random Passage Trust and The Royal Newfoundland Regiment Advisory Council.