Press Release

Venice, CA – On October 15, 2009, in conjunction with his exhibit RARE PLACES IN A RARE LIGHT, landscape photographer Robert Turner will present a talk with projected images as part of the G2 Gallery’s ongoing Music and Lecture Series. Turner will offer insights into the art of capturing ephemeral images of beauty and drama in nature. He will share anecdotes about the circumstances that led to many of the pictures in the show and discuss the process he has created for attaining nuances of light and color on film. Turner will also talk about the formative experiences in the natural world and the visual arts that led him to a career in fine art photography. Many of these experiences continue to drive his pursuit of photographs that inform the soul and convey his deep belief in the value of wild places.

The event begins at 6:00 p.m. with a reception, followed by a 7:00 p.m. lecture. The event is free and open to the public.

About Robert Turner
Robert Turner has been working professionally with a camera for more than thirty years. Before turning to images of the natural world, 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 devotes all of his energies to large format, fine art, landscape photography, logging 30,000 miles a year in pursuit of the light on the land. His work will be featured in a number of museum, art fair, and gallery shows in the upcoming year, and hangs in private collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His prints also reside in numerous corporate collections, including those of Sprint, A G Edwards, Goldman Sachs, and Deloitte & Touche. His images are identified by their strong composition, rich use of color, and sense of depth. They are sold in galleries in New York, Denver, Santa Fe, and Newport Beach, California, as well as Jakarta, Indonesia.

The traveling exhibit, ROBERT TURNER:  RARE PLACES IN RARE LIGHT, was hosted recently by the Harvard Museum of Natural History as well as museums in San Diego, Cleveland, and Napa Valley, California.