Robert Cattan Biography
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Robert Cattan immigrated to the United States as a teenager. His interest in photography was sparked by a high school course which allowed him hours of time to creatively express himself. Photography gave him a means to communicate in a country where the language and culture was foreign to him. Robert's interest soon became a career path.
Over the past 25 years, Robert has explored a variety of photographic avenues. He has done studio work, created photo illustrations for various magazines and book publishers. Owning a studio in the 1980's and 1990's , he created optical effects for audio-visual presentations. More recently, Robert became a fine art printer and artist using his knowledge of photography to print exhibits for top photojournalists. Additionally, Robert is represented by Index Stock Imagery with photographs licensed world-wide.
His most recent project includes the establishment of Botanicaarts.com - a web-based photographic arts site, which specializes in Robert's limited edition prints, journals, stationary, and books. Robert's passion is to create images that express life's beauty focusing on the cycles in nature, spanning birth to death. Through light and shadow, he brings out the beauty in the subject in the style of a Dutch master.
" Creating for me is a way to heal my soul and to express my emotions. The feeling that I get in my gut, when I am making images is like an elixir for living."
Exhibits/Awards
Botanica - Soap Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
Winner, Fourth Annual Photoworkshop.com Digital Imaging Competition, 2006
Botanica (one man show) - Full Circle Gallery, White Plains, 2005
Portraits - Soap Gallery, San Francisco, 2005
Belle Levine Arts Center - Catskills, 2004
"Traveling Metro Show" - City Without Walls: New York Metropolitan Area, 1987
"New Developments, Contemporary American Photography" - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, 1986
"Ninth Annual Photography Show" - The Catskill Center for Photography, 1986
"Small Works" - City Without Walls, New Jersey, 1986
"Quiet Places" - Mari Galleries of Westchester, Mamaroneck, 1986
