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Robert Palmer - Clients &
Biography
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Robert Palmer- Biography
After studies at the Brooks Institute,
USA, Robert returned to the UK and helped
set up Keishi Colour lab processing. On
receiving a job offer the next four years
were spent as assistant to still-life
photographer Richard Manning (of Benson
and Hedges advert fame).
The last ten years have been spent as
freelance photographer, firstly at a
studio in Lever St, then refurbishing a
derelict building in Stoke Newington which
had in its previous incarnations been an
artificial Christmas tree factory and then
printing works into
Lighthaven
Studios seven years ago.
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Clients
Images of lorries, shot on location in
Wales for British Petroleum were used for
advertisement and brochures. Robert
embraced the 6X17 Alpa-rota panoramic
camera as a new way of
capturing images
on location, the camera is capable of
a complete 360 degrees of rotation.
Amongst the many projects for which Robert
has been commissioned are; advertising
posters for Outspan, corporate brochures
for IBM and Courtaulds, 48 sheet posters
for Commercial Union , a campaign for
fashion designer Jasper Conran, part of a
TV ad for Debenhams and commissions for
Coca-Cola and British Telecom.
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Location work
In addition to UK locations, overseas
location work include a shoot for
Debenhams in Miami and projects in Prague,
Dusseldorf and Spain.
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Digital Capture
Within the last year commercial
imperatives have necessitated the move to
digital photography. Robert has been using
the Photophase II scanning camera back for
digital image capture which is capable of
capturing images of up to 136 megabytes in
size. This has been used for catalogue
work, still life and brochures for
Debenhams. The advantage of this new
system is the ability to output from
camera straight to proof via the new
generation of inkjet printer which
significantly increases the speed of the
process. There is the ability to work
directly with the repro house as images
can be transported on an external hard
drive, downloaded and proofed directly.
Another advantage is that there is a
latitude of 10 stops with these digital
images, compared with 7 for a negative or
less than three for a transparency.
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Finally Robert is keen to stress that
he doesn't want to pigeonhole himself or
be pigeonholed as a photographer and
believes that a photographer should be
able to handle any challenge that is
presented to him.
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