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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Robin has been a professional photographer for nearly 40 years and was a contract photographer for Time Magazine for 16 years in Asia, Middle East and USA. Most recently he is also a publisher of coffee table books. In addition to his current workload, </span></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">he is in the process of producing several new books on golf in Asia and a retrospective of his documentary and landscape photography.</span></font></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">Currently, Robin spends much of his time traveling for corporate clients. He is represented by Deborah Brown & Associates in New York (corporate) (</span></span><a style="font-family: Verdana;" href="http://www.debbybrown.com">http://www.debbybrown.com</a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">). He is associated with <a href="http://www.hongkongfive.com" target="Hong Kong Five">Hong Kong Five</a> group of photographers working in Asia. His stock resides with OnAsia in Bangkok, </span><a style="font-family: Verdana;" href="http://www.onasia.com">www.onasia.com</a></font></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="3"><a style="font-family: Verdana;" href="http://www.onasia.com"><br /> </a></font></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Contact: <a href="mailto:robinmoyer1@mac.com">robinmoyer1@mac.com</a></span></span></span></font></div> <p><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <br /> </span></span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After receiving a BA from the University of North Carolina in Communications (Motion Pictures), Robin began his career working as a cameraman for UPITN/ITV in Vietnam covering the Cambodian Invasion in 1970. </span></span></span></font></p> <p><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">While working for Time Magazine he received many awards for his work in Asia and the Middle East, among them: World Press Picture of the Year and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Citation from the Overseas Press Club for Courage and Enterprise in Overseas Reporting, both for his work on the war in Lebanon. Between 1982 and 1998 he carried out a wide range of assignments for Time, including special coverage in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and leading teams of photographers during the Philippine Revolt in 1986, the Seoul Olympics in 1988, and covering the visit of Gorbachev to Beijing in 1989 which led to the Tian An Men incident. Over the years he has made special portraits of the political and business leaders of Southeast Asia, producing nearly 20 covers for Time. Among them: Lee Kwan Yew, Mahathir Mohamed, Aung San Suu Kyi, Fidel Ramos, Corazon Aquino, Stan Shen (ACER), Li Ka-shing. Kim Dae Jung, Kim Young Sam and Deng Xiao Ping.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> He has worked on assignment for many other publications, among them: Life, Fortune, People, Newsweek, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and New York Magazine. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <br /> </font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> As chief photographer for Time in Asia he has been at the cutting edge of digital technology, transmitting Time pictures, first from dedicated telephone lines and later via the new worldwide web. In this role, he would not only manage the coverage, but edit the pictures and often choose cover and inside images on tight deadlines.<br /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> </span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> He has been a contributing photographer to the well-known </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A Day in the Life</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> series of books – Australia, China, Japan, Hawaii, Thailand, Spain, Italy, and to similar projects in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. </span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Robin published his first book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">As American A Picture . . .</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">, in 1976. He was the editorial coordinator and contributing photographer on the best selling book, Bayan Ko! Images of the Philippine Revolt (1986). </span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">His</span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Golfing Philippines</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> sold 15,000 copies in 2003, followed by </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Pocket Guide to Golfing Philippines</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> (8,000 copies). His most recent book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Great Golf Courses of China</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> (2006 </span><a style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.golfing-asia.com/tggcocweb/">http://www.golfing-asia.com/tggcocweb/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">), is a large size limited edition coffee table volume that has met with great success with 5,000 copies in print. He writes a regular column for Golf Digest China.</span></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> His personal photographs reside in many private collections around the world. He is represented by several platinum prints in the Masters of Photography Collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> </span> </span></font></p></font></span><br> <h1> photography, photojournalism, corporate, asia, golf, large format, commercial, advertising, travel.</h1>
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