Robby is a photographer from and currently based in 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, Robby 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 stillness, solitude, and spaces that resist the acceleration of modern life. In doing so, they propose isolation not as loneliness, but as a site of comfort: a slowing down that permits new encounters with self and environment. Each image becomes both a trace and a threshold, offering the viewer room to inhabit it with their own sensibility.

This ethos extends most fully into Robby’s current on-going series of travel photo books, which deliberately eschew text in favour of the photograph as a primary mode of encounter. These works resist the conventions of travel literature, which so often rely on narration, explanation, or the imposition of a fixed meaning. Instead, they propose an alternative mode of travel -one in which place is apprehended through atmosphere, light, and detail rather than through description. By privileging images over words, the books cultivate a form of “visual phenomenology”: an invitation to experience the mood of a place, to feel its presence, rather than to consume its facts.

In this way, Robby’s practice occupies the interstices between photography, philosophy, and travel. It asks not simply how we see the world, but how seeing shapes our being within it.