I am a documentary photographer living in Italy. This page gives a few examples of my work.

Instead of a set of web pages I have provided a number of Adobe Acrobat files of my work. This has the advantage that the portfolios look the same on all platforms, but on the other hand the files are quite large. The best thing to do is to download them and then look at them off-line. To do this you need Acrobat Reader.

Lansdowne Road is a short street in downtown Bombay behind the Taj Mahal 5 star hotel. I spent several months there in 1998 photographing the street people and stall holders. The story was featured on the Digital Journalist in August 2000.

Lansdowne Road (2Mb download)

City of Crows is my forthcoming book about the Bombay slum of Dharavi. I have posted some excerpts from it here. Introduction is a text piece with a few images about life in the slum, while Dhobighat is a section dealing with the Dharavi laundymen's quarter and Selection contains 14 untitled images from the book. The story was featured on the Digital Journalist in April 2002.

Introduction (186 Kb download)  Dhobighat (944 Kb download)  Selection (903 Kb download)

Digital Journalist feature (html)

HAZARATOWN

Hazaratown is a refugee township on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan. I was there in November 2001 to learn about the experience of the Hazaras at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Hazaratown Stories (881 Kb download)

PROMISED LAND

The Palestinian villagers living on the southern border of the West Bank near to Hebron have been fighting against eviction and the expropriation of their land over the last 15 years. I have posted some background information (maps and documents) about the Hebron situation here. Promised Land was featured on ZNet in September 2002. I have also written a brief essay about the larger implications of the Hebron case.

Promised Land (1.4 Mb download)   ZNet feature (html)

CONTACT

Email: rob@robertappleby.com

Cellphone (Italy +39) 348 336 7990

All materials on this site (c) Robert Appleby. All rights reserved. No reproduction or publication without express permission.