Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct 2006
Love of the wilderness was born in landscape photographer Robert Turner before he owned a camera. Beginning when he was 11, his parents occasionally dropped him and several friends at a spot on the Appalachian Trail near their northern New Jersey home. . . . continue reading
PT at Large, Jan 2006
Going to a photography exhibit like "Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light" makes me feel like I spend days with my eyes wide open but see nothing. I don't have to drive 40,000 miles a year in a pickup truck like Turner does to find places to photograph . . . continue reading
Photo Techniques Mar/Apr 2006
I strive to create works of
enduring beauty - images that
inform the soul and convey my
deep belief in the value of wild
places . The struggle is to
distill the everywhere - you - look
splendor of a place like the Utah
canyonlands, Yosemite Valley, or
the Appalachians in autumn into
an essence that fits with in the
confines of a rectangle . . . continue reading
View Camera Magazine Nov/Dec 2004
At the end of 1996,
after working 20 years
as a filmmaker, I
bought my first large
format equipment: a
well-used Toyo field
camera and two
brand new lenses (a
third and a fourth
have since been added).
I set out with a
vengeance (and a
new Toyota pickup)
to accumulate photographic
capital in my
new medium . . . continue reading