Name: Robert Holmgren
Location: Menlo Park, California
Hometown: Rockford, Illinois
Cameras: Holga 120N & 120FN
Favorite Film: Fuji Neopan 400
Favorite Food: In a photography questionaire? It would have to be Rice Krispies because of the snap, crackle and pop (hey don’t blame us! Wally Billignham made these questions up!)
Favorite Photographer: There are a ton of wonderful photographers that I admire. Rocky Schenck, Lee Friedlander, Edward Steichen and Irving Penn are stand outs. The Holga/toy camera world has produced a number of very interesting photographers I follow–including Becky Pendel, C. Gary Moyer, Kelly McCracken, Tom Burke, Gwen Coyne, David Niles, Laura Burllton and Gordon Stettinius. I’d love to get my hands on Nicéphore Niépce’s camera–talk about old skool.
Biography:
Robert Holmgren has shot assignments for a wide variety of publications such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and National Geographic. Much of this work involved environmental portraiture of prominent individuals. At the same time he has maintained a steady production of personal picture taking and is currently focused on producing prints from this work as well as in ongoing personal projects. He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his work is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Michigan State University’s Kresge Gallery, the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. His portfolio website is robertholmgren.com.
Robert Holmgren says, “My interest in photography began first as a means of artistic expression. Only years later did it become my profession. Living in San Francisco during the rise of Silicon Valley created the opportunity of plentiful work for a variety of national and international magazines. Some time after the internet bubble economy had burst my own attentions had drifted back to a more personal sort of picture making, aided, perhaps, by the shift away from film based tools and towards digital photography. I purchased my first Holga and set about to both tame the Holga’s limitations and learn what it offered in reward. Since 2005 it has been my primary camera.
Robert’s website is here:
http://www.robertholmgren.com/
His flickr is:
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Big fan of Roberts work. I can also recommend his self published book- “Strange Meat” on Blurb.
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