Robby is a photographer from and currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, whose practice is rooted in an exploration of perception, place, and presence. Attentive to the layered relationships between built and natural environments, and to the shifting interplay of light, history, and texture, he has developed a way of working that privileges attention over spectacle, subtlety over declaration. Photography, in this context, becomes less a tool of documentation than a mindful practice: a method of exploring and understanding the world by attending to its details and rhythms, without compressing experience into a single story.

Central to this work is the notion of isolation. Yet rather than approaching isolation as estrangement or absence, Robby frames it as a generative condition—an opportunity for clarity, interiority, and renewal. The photographs embrace solitude, and spaces that resist the acceleration of modern life. In doing so, they propose isolation not as loneliness, but as a site of presence: a slowing down that permits fresh encounters with self and environment. Each image becomes both a trace and a threshold, offering the viewer space to inhabit it with their own sensibility.

This sensibility finds expression in three ongoing projects. Intervals explores the spaces in-between, moments of pause and suspension that reveal the atmospheres of everyday environments. Spirit of Place extends this outward, offering travel books built entirely from images that convey the character of locations through light, rhythm, and texture rather than description. Double Takes departs from the anchor of place and instead pairs images drawn from everyday life—streets, interiors, common moments—creating dialogues and tensions that reveal hidden connections in the ordinary. Together, these projects frame travel, place, and experience not as destinations or facts, but as encounters that remain open, fluid, and lived.

Beyond practice, Robby studied Integrated Product Design and later completed an MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art. These formative years continue to inform how his work bridges design, visual theory, and photographic inquiry.