Work
Across a core set of long-term projects — including CripFag, Traversing Pride, Fire Island, Miami Beach, Disability and Sexuality, Rodeo, and FlyFall — Robert Andy Coombs photographs queer life from the lived perspective of a power wheelchair user.
Working between street photography, portraiture, and Polaroids, Coombs centers disabled embodiment, desire, and visibility in public and intimate spaces. His images emerge from streets, beaches, Pride celebrations, cruising grounds, bedrooms, and queer nightlife, offering a radically situated viewpoint that reframes how bodies, movement, and intimacy are seen.
Taken together, these projects expand contemporary queer disability aesthetics by positioning disabled people not as objects of representation but as active makers of visual culture. Each series below explores this commitment through a distinct place, community, and moment in time.
CripFag
Traversing Pride
Fire Island
Miami Beach
Disability and Sexuality
Rodeo
FlyFall