Ford Robbins
Born in San Pedro, California in 1942, Ford Robbins spent most of his early life in Minnesota. After marriage, he and his wife returned to northern California between 1967 and 1969 and lived in Japan from 1969 to 1972, when they returned to Minnesota. raising two children.
Mr. Robbins graduated from Lawrence University and the University of Minnesota, with additional study at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He practised law for 25 years before retiring to New Mexico in 1988. He has been photographing for over thirty-five years.
Robbins has exhibited extensively since 1983, most recently at the Museum of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, the Albuquerque Museum of Art & Culture, the Miller Museum of Art, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; and the Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico as well as numerous venues in his hometown and in greater New Mexico. He was recently honored by the selection of his work for inclusion in an exhibition of American landscape photography at the United States Embassy, Asunción, Paraguay and the United States Embassy in Muscat, Oman.
In 1997, Mr. Robbins was recognized by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico with the inclusion of his work in the New Mexico State Capitol Art Collection. His work is also included in numerous private, museum, corporate, religious and other public collections, including the permanent collections of the Saganaw Art Museum, Saganaw, Michigan, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York and San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California.
A book of Mr. Robbins’ photography is being published by Red Mountain Press. Release date is tentatively scheduled for September, 2009.
Robbins has maintained an active commercial photographic practise since moving to Santa Fe, providing film, digital and prepress services to artists, writers, publishers, galleries and museums. Several of his clients have recently won national book awards.