Photo by Steve Roberts
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, I spent my early years growing up in my mother’s childhood home with its view of Beaver Lake. In 1965, my mother sold the house and moved me and my siblings to Europe. Most of that time was spent traveling around the continent in a Chevy Bel Air station wagon, perhaps the largest automobile on the Continent at the time. It certainly created excitement whenever we came into a small village in Italy or Spain.
Eventually we settled in Paris where I attended boarding school at Notre-Dame de Boulogne outside of the city. During those years living in Europe, I began to make pictures with my medium format box camera wherever we traveled and in the museums I looked at pictures made by an art history of painters. I walked among the ruins of the ancient Romans and found a world to myself in the woods of Boulogne. My teachers had me read de la Fontaine and Baudelaire. And in the spring of 1968, I was given a lesson in political resistance that I have never forgotten.
Video recording in Buddhist Temple, Bagan, Myanmar
Photographing Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
With my son Fred working on a documentary in Bagan, Myanmar
Meeting Remarkable People Along the Way
When in the States, you can find me on my Harley. Well, maybe you can't.
Fred on camera discussing Buddhist architecture, Sukhothai, Thailand.
Photographiing the remote Banteay Ampil temple, Cambodia.
Enjoying a sundowner at Baudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu.
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