Stuart Rome

Stuart Rome has worked as a photographer since the 1970’s during which he began exhibiting works in color - both landscapes and portraits, entitled, Modern Mythologies. His first solo exhibition was presented at the International Museum of Photography in 1978. His interests in anthropology led to projects photographing antiquities in Latin America and Asia as well as recording remnants of these expressions found in the rituals of trance. This documentary work led to landscape photographs of forests as a manifestation of pantheistic energy. Patterning found in tribal art and textiles became the framework from which ideas about the natural world would emerge in his most recent work, Drawn from Nature. In 1985 Stuart Rome was hired to start the Photography Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he continues to teach. Stuart Rome has exhibited extensively over the years in solo and group exhibitions - in galleries and museums. Amongst his publications are: Maya, Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, Abrams, 1985; Forest, a monograph, Nazraeli Press, 2005; Signs and Wonders, The Southeast Museum of Photography, 2011.