Robert Stivers is a fine-art photographer with a BA from University of California, Irvine, and an MA from New York University. He has exhibited his work internationally for three decades and published six monographs: Robert Stivers: Photographs, Listening to Cement, Sestina, Sanctum, The Art of Ruin, and Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids by Robert Stivers. His photographs can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, Harvard’s Fogg Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among others. Collectors of Robert’s work include Ellen Degeneres, Charlize Theron, and Mark Wahlberg.