Robert Hirsch

Robert Hirsch is an artist and author of Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography; Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes; and Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels. He is the former Associate Editor for Photovision and Digital Camera magazines and a contributing writer for Afterimage, exposure, Fotophile, The History of Photography, Photo Technique, and The Photo Review among others. His visual projects, such as World in a Jar: War & Trauma, The 1960s Cubed, and Ghosts: French Holocaust Children, have been exhibited around the world. A former Executive Director and Chief Curator of CEPA Gallery, Hirsch now operates Light Research. His projects can be viewed at: www.lightresearch.net.