Robert Lobe - "The Moon is Out"

Robert Lobe

My color photographs result from an ongoing process of exploration, discovery and selection within complex urban environments. I focus on street level details to which people typically pay little attention. This holds true whether I'm photographing in the streets of Manhattan, western Queens or Brooklyn, or those of a great foreign city like London, Istanbul or Berlin. I make use of found, often striking color; close observation of patterns, textures and visual rhythms; and the unexpected juxtaposition of ordinary objects. By trying to capture something of the beauty, meaning and mystery of a city's streets, I hope to create personal work that is unexpected, even challenging.