Artist Blog - Rob Dobi

Interview:

http://blog.bluetideproductions.com/2009/11/03/rob-dobi-photographer-interview/

http://thefamiliarstrangers.com/rob-dobi-interview/

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=90487

Website:

http://robdobi.4ormat.com/5698-information-home

http://www.dobi.nu/

Quotes:

"I have just always found them fascinating, It isn’t about the haunting or creepy aspect at all. It is the thrill and sheer overwhelming feeling when you walk into a wide open factory that used to employ thousands, or a theater that could seat just as many, and now they just sit there with dust covering everything completely frozen in time. No signs of life in decades, no sound whatsoever, just you and your footprints. It has a post apocalyptic feel at times, like you are the only one left on earth. To me I almost feel at home in this situation, I am a fairly introverted person so just me and the click of my camera is a calming feeling."

(Reed, Zach. "Blue Tide Productions Blog » Rob Dobi Photographer Interview." Blue Tide Productions Blog. 3 Nov. 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. .)

"Usually just everyday mundane subject matter, but shot in a style that shows how empty / decayed things have become. I think it is the stuff people are most familiar with that resonates the most, there is a sense of understanding when it is something people can associate with."

(Reed, Zach. "Blue Tide Productions Blog » Rob Dobi Photographer Interview." Blue Tide Productions Blog. 3 Nov. 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. .)

Biography:

Rob Dobi is a 2003 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. His photographic work has been featured in Preservation Magazine, the Connecticut Post, Mcgraw-Hill textbooks.

(Dobi, Rob. "New England Ruins - About." New England Ruins - Home. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. .)

The reason I chose Rob Dobi as my artist this week is because he is not a "photographer" per se. Dobi is an illustrator by trade and got into photographing abandoned buildings when he and his friends in college went driving around. Even though most of the buildings that Dobi photographs are industrial buildings they have the same feel as the houses that I photograph.