For twenty years as a photographer, Bob Hubert has focused his lens on the life and landscapes of New England. He particularly likes to find the hidden places in his home state of Massachusetts and his second home of Maine.

His most recent exhibition entitled 'Boys Will Be Scouts' included fifty photographs from his ten years as a Scoutmaster in our small New England town. The photos reflect a sometimes ironic view of this 100 year old institution for boys. Bob admits, "The Scouting series surprised me...many people expected that I would do an exhibition of photos that glorified Scouting--but almost all of them seem to have an edge of some kind. My favorite is the young blonde boy putting on camoflage paint next to the uniformed soldier."

He also has a series called 'Walks in a Small Town' that explores the little known paths and hidden places in his hometown of Harvard. Bob recalls, "The Harvard landscape series was just plain fun. We drive by places so often that we don't actually 'see' what's there! This project was my penance to the town. I had to slow down and actually see what was there." Next, he is working on a series of Maine photographs called 'Little Island' that document the quiet, and often missed landscapes of a small coastal community.

Bob still shoots mostly film versus digital– usually large or medium format. For any studio work, he usually uses an 8" by 10" view camera. He actually own the 8X10 camera that used to be in the Harvard Camera Shop. Some of his photographs are printed in the traditional darkroom, while others are scanned from negatives and printed on large scale inkjet printers. Bob donated his large format inkjet printer to the school recently for the students to print college portfolios, posters for the school plays and so forth. He replaced it with a new Epson printer that is intended for black and white printing.

He is very involved in alternative methods of photographic production and eager to network with photographers who shoot in New England and share his interests.

As a longtime supporter of helping students develop careers in the arts, Bob has started a project that he hopes will bring big changes to the way artists create and develop their careers. The project is called Creative Contact. It is a free website designed to make networking and entrepreneurship easy for artists. The project has been two years in the making and will eventually include three different websites all geared to artists' career development. Bob encourages local artists to log onto the site at www.creativecontact.com and create a profile and small portfolio of their work. He also welcomes any comments and suggestions to improve the site and make it more useful to artists. For comments about the site or his photography, send email to bob@creativecontact.com.