Biography

Robert Wilson was born in Ayr, Scotland.

Rob Wilson - photograph by Alan McCroneHe studied Graphic design and Photography followed by a pure photography course becoming a member of the British Institute of Professional Photographers.

Rob joined an Edinburgh based commercial photographers and spent four years producing high quality architectural and commercial photography. He then opened his own studio in the centre of Edinburgh working mainly for Advertising Agencies and Design Groups.

Assignments have taken Rob to Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, Denmark and Cuba.

At the end of the ninties Rob spent almost three years living in Santiago de Chile shooting campaigns for Advertising Agencies.

During his time in Chile he was presented with the advertising photographer of the year award.

The campaign was for one of Chile's largest insurance companies Chilena Consolidada. The Agency is LOWE.PORTA.

After many years of working with large and medium format film cameras, Rob is now being commissioned to shoot mainly on digital. This has proved to be a very exciting and rewarding development.

Rob also takes photographs for stock and has his own, on-line, image library; http://www.robwilson-images.com

E-mail rob@robwilson-photographs.com

Photograph of Rob by Alan McCrone.