Robert Andy Coombs makes photographs from inside a life rarely pictured.
Working from the vantage point of a power wheelchair, he photographs intimacy, desire, friendship, care, and public life with the directness of lived experience. The pictures move between private rooms, queer gatherings, portrait sittings, and the street. They are made in collaboration with people he knows and with strangers willing to be seen.
Coombs received an MFA from Yale School of Art and is a United States Artists Fellow. His work has been presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, the Frost Art Museum, RISD Museum, and institutions internationally. He lives and works in Foley, Alabama.
- Lives
- Foley, Alabama
- Practice
- Photography · Archive · Desire
- Work held by
- Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · RISD Museum · ONE Archives · Tom of Finland Foundation
