Critical Praise

"Jimm Roberts works with astute sensitivity in revealing his subjects. The portraits have a defining delicacy that is the result of his having considered his subjects so thoroughly that he notices that moment when momentary truths overlap with timeless realities. A Jimm Roberts photograph is distinctive and could never have been made by anyone else."

Ann Beattie

"Jimm Roberts’s portraits of artists and writers are splendid in their technique, but more remarkable still is the way his subjects, whether pensive or responsive, are so at ease in the camera’s moment as to reveal their true natures."

Richard Wilbur

"These images evoke the strength, the character, the mystery of the writer’s art. There is a loneliness in these portraits. There is an evocative quality that makes each photograph, like a good poem or short story, more than the sum of its technical or compositional parts. It is unusual for a craftsman in one medium to so thoroughly empathize with those in another."

Chauncey Mabe
Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel

"Sometimes humor is Robert’s vehicle. The willingness on the part of very private people to turn playful says something about photographer Roberts."

Cynthia Parks
Florida Times-Union

"Sensitive and intelligent studies of some of our most creative people. A celebration, not only of these fifty American artists and their work, but of the black-and-white portrait as a vehicle of expression and interpretation."

Alison Devine Nordstrom
Southeast Museum of Photography

"The photographic exhibition was absolutely stunning. One evening is too short a time to spend with such a breathtaking display of art. I wanted to be able to return over and over, to look at it in a less crowded atmosphere."

Susan Koppleman

"…a traveling exhibit, a book in the hand–this gallery of portraits is nonetheless permanent."

John Malcolm Brinnin

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