R O B E R T  W  S T E W A R T

Robert has been a successful commercial/advertising photographer for almost thirty years. His company, Robert Stewart Photography, Ltd., specializes in shooting people, food, annual reports, architecture, and brochures for some of the largest corporations in the country.

The route to this profession has been indirect at best.  Prior to his career in photography, he was a Detroit Police officer, a tool & die apprentice, a taxi driver in Chicago, a graphic artist, a textile worker and a farm worker, to name a few.

He studied fine art for two years at Wayne State University, and then moved to Chicago where he studied sculpture.  Predominately self-taught in photography, he gained valuable technical experience, shooting fingerprints and evidence while assigned to the Detroit Police Photo lab.  Eventually the police work was eclipsed by his growing photo business.  He left the police department in 1980 to pursue photography full time.

In 2004, Stewart embarked on a path to explore more personal avenues of photographic expression by launching The Robert Stewart Collection.  This is a collection of his personal images from the past, mixed with new images and photographic experiments.  Currently these images will only be available through select galleries and art shows, and an occasional studio open house.

Robert has shown at the following galleries / organizations…
The River’s Edge Gallery – Wyandotte, MI (permanent collection)
Zoom Gallery – Birmingham, MI (permanent collection)
The Birmingham Unitarian Church – Birmingham, MI
The Preston Burke Gallery – Royal Oak, MI
The Neal Davis Gallery – Royal Oak, MI
The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
The Cranbrook Academy of Art – Serious Moonlight Auction
The Future Gallery – Centerline, MI
The Woods Gallery - Huntington Wds., MI

Robert has taught photography at…
Marygrove College - Detroit
International Academy of Design and Technology – Troy

Currently teaching photography at…
College for Creative Studies
Macomb Community College

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