Robert Manz has been making photographs since 1967; he received his basic training at the Harvard Crimson, where he was a photo editor.

He is active at the Cataumet Arts Center and is a member of the Falmouth Artist's Guild.

In his work, he seeks to explore the precious qualities of the land and its people.  His work can be seen at his studio, at Jan Collins Selman Fine Art in Falmouth, and at the Cataumet Arts Center.

Through 2007 he worked with 35mm film cameras, scanning the positive or negative images, and printing them on water color paper using high resolution inkjet with archival pigment inks. At the end of 2007 he started working with a Nikon D300, and from then his work has been entirely digital.

In 2001 he began developing ways to use varnishes as a means of protecting his prints, and of presenting the prints without glass.  This work culminated in 2007 in a set of media and techniques he terms “varnished ink on paper”  -- each print is coated with multiple fine layers of acrylic varnish, mounted on canvas and framed.  The result is a protective coating and presentation that allows the same immediacy to the print that one feels with a painting.

He teaches courses on practicing photography as an art form at Cataumet Arts Center and the Falmouth Artists Guild.

He lives in the town of Bourne, Cape Cod and the town of Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.

Corporate Installations

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, New Bedford

The Villages at Brookside, Bourne

Security Federal Savings, Falmouth

Children's Hospital, Boston

Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis

Corporate Advertising

Coalition for Buzzards Bay

Cape Cod Bank and Trust

BankNorth

Shows

2010

“Sunset at Monk’s Cove”, solo show at Bourne Public Library, March 30 - April 23

2009

“Pieces: the Photography of Robert Manz”, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, May 19 - June 21; with

talk on June 4 - “Photography as an Art Form: thoughts on Photography’s evolving place in the Visual Arts

and its validity as a non-document”.  For a catalog of this show please click here.

Falmouth Artists Guild, Juried Photography Show, First Prize - Best Special Technique

2008

Photography Portfolio featured in Cape Cod Life Magazine, December issue

“Beach Day at Chapoquoit”, individual show at Cataumet Arts Center, July

West Falmouth Library, artist of the month, June

Falmouth Artists Guild, Juried Photography Show

2007

"When We Were Younger":

Inviited to participate in show sponsored by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod featuring 40 “Preeminent Cape Cod Artists” at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, January, 2007.

2006

Falmouth Artists Guild, Fall Juried Show: all media

Falmouth Artists Guild, Juried Photography Show

Falmouth Artists Guild, From Abstract to Expressionism

Cataumet Arts Center, Faculty Show

Cape Cod Art Association, July Members Show

Cape Cod Art Association, August Members Show

2005

Falmouth Artists Guild, Fall Juried Show: all media

"Crossing Via Torta": two person show at Vagabond Gallery, Canandaigua, New York

August 12 - September 5

www.vagabondgallery.com

Cape Cod Art Association Members' Show

Award: Second Prize Photography

Falmouth Artists' Guild juried photography show.

Award: Best Color

2004

"Bellosguardo": one person show at Maser Gallery, Falmouth

Cape Cod Art Association juried Open Show

Chester County Art Association 20th Annual Invitational Show

"Sunset at Monk's Cove": one person show at Cataumet Arts Center

Chester County Art Association juried all media show.

Falmouth Artists' Guild juried photography show.

2003

Hungarian Museum of Photography, Invitational Show, "Taken in Hungary".

Falmouth Artists' Guild juried photography show.

Award: Best Creative Study

Cape Cod Photography Club juried photography show.

Award: 2 Honorable Mentions

2002

Chester County Art Association 18th Annual Invitational Show

Press Coverage

December 3, 2004, Falmouth Enterprise coverage of one-person show Bellosguardo: "Understanding Artist's Philosophy of Photography Adds Depth to Show";

see coverage

Profiled in Fall, 2004, Cape Cod Life Arts Edition

Statement

The land, and the people in it, are precious….any land, any people.

In my images I try to appreciate and reveal this. I do not think of the images as documents, but as revelations.

Each image attempts to look beyond the surface and to reveal something about the preciousness of the land and its people.

I was raised in Pennsylvania. Currently I live on Cape Cod and in County Mayo.

Galleries

Jan Collins Selman Fine Art, Main Street, Falmouth, MA

Cataumet Arts Center, Scraggy Neck Road, Cataumet, MA

The Andrew Stone Gallery, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland

Mai Mano House of Photography Bookshop, Budapest, Hungary

Robert Manz Studio, One Jonathan Bourne Drive, Pocasset, MA

Publications

Cape Cod Life Magazine, cover, September 2010 issue

Cape Cod Life Magazine, cover, April 2010 issue

Coaltion for Buzzards Bay, cover and inside cover, Annual Report, 2009

Photography Portfolio “4 Beaches” featured in Cape Cod Life Magazine, July 2009 issue

View of Red Brook Harbor from Patuisset, Pocasset -- “Grand View” - featured on the cover

of Cape Cod Life Magazine, July 2009 issue

Cape Cod Life Magazine, portfolio, December 2008 issue