For as long as he can remember, Robert has loved wandering the streets of exotic places, and taking photographs. Although born in New York City, he spent much of his childhood in his mother’s homeland of Peru.  This culturally rich community embodies a colorful blend of Spanish Colonialism and the native traditions of the Incas and other tribes.  Robert's early interest in photography and fashion was sparked here. Here he noticed that the indigenous women wore different hats to distinguish their villages. Armed with a Kodak instamatic at age ten, this became one of his first fashion stories.

Since then his combined interest in the quickly disappearing cultures of the third world and photography has brought him to the jungles of the
Amazon and Asia, the deserts of the Middle East and the glaciers of Iceland. 

His early education in photography was largely self-taught. He attended photography and art courses at the university of Pennsylvania and assisted a few photographers in Massachusetts. In 1991 he ventured to Miami Beach in a 60 Cadillac Convertible and has not looked back since.

Robert has held several successful solo shows of his documentary photography in New York at the Forbes Gallery and in Miami during the Art Basel Festival.

Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania (International Relations, 1984).  While appreciative of this education, he believes his most valuable lessons were gained outside of classrooms and lecture halls, during his travels to more than eighty countries.

Robert lives in Miami Beach, Florida, where he designed his home, office and light-flooded studio building, El Cyclon.  His fashion photography and advertising images have appeared in George, People, Ocean Drive, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Vogue, The Source, Maxim, Town & Country and Playboy.