THE PHOTOGRAPHER

The Photographer during a bush trip, with ‘Chikolowa’ (Termitomyces titanicus)’ - claimed to be the World’s largest mushroom at sometimes over 1m cap diameter – and very good eating too. The photographer says: “I’m the one on the right”.

Work from microlite
Photo: Heiko Held

Stephen Robinson is a professional photographer with over 25 years experience in photography in Africa, operating from his Zambia base. He has specialised in Nature Photography including Wildlife, Environment, Ecology, Conservation and Landscape work. He also undertakes photography assignments in the commercial and industrial fields, including the production of photography-based communications and advertising publications.

His interest in nature and wildlife grew when he moved to Zambia from his native England in 1975. He came to Africa as a construction professional, but spent extended periods in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley as a walking safari guide. His keen interest in nature photography grew from this. His general wildlife photography of African mammals soon extended to birds, insects, flora, ecology, and action photography of wildlife.

During his many years of travelling to remote locations in unknown Zambia, he found himself repeatedly making the same mental note: “must come back and do the landscapes…”. Many years later, the current ‘Spirit of the Land’ project has arisen from that (see The Project).

He says: “Photography was probably ‘in the blood’. My father is an excellent photographer and I grew up seeing his black and white photographs. They were mostly candid shots of people in an environment that is now long gone. They so often caught ‘the moment’, very much in the style of Cartier-Bresson.”

Stephen Robinson’s nature photography is regularly published internationally, in Europe, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Far East, including in prestigious publications.

His work has been shown at the British Museum of Natural History and at the Luxembourg Museé National d’Histoire et d’Art. In 2004, his photography of African great apes was exhibited at the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta, USA, by the international Great Ape Project conservation organisation. The exhibit was auctioned to a ‘sell-out’ response,

His stock picture work is used regularly in international books, magazines, and in educational, communications and advertising publications. Clients include major international publishing houses such as Heinemann, Dorling Kindersley, Harper Collins, De Agostini, World Book Publishing, Grove Press and McGraw Hill.

Publications and media clients include National Geographic Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Financial Times (London), Discovery Channel, Sunday Telegraph (London), Country Living Magazine and Mother Earth Magazine (USA). His work has been used commercially in advertising campaigns, including in Europe by such clients as Toyota.

The photographer is one of approximately 100 international photographers contracted to The Natural History Photographic Agency (NHPA) / Photoshot. A selection from his internationally published nature, wildlife and environment work is available for viewing at www.nhpa.co.uk (go to ‘Photographers’ and then to ‘S Robinson’), or go to Links.

He has recently become one of a network of 22 international photographers to be represented by the Sweden-based Art Photo Collection (www.artphotocollection.com), which markets photographic art for public and private spaces.

Stephen Robinson exhibits the Spirit of the Land project work regularly in solo, joint and collective exhibitions and at private galleries (see Exhibitions).

The limited edition prints of the Spirit of the Land work are now exhibited and available at: