January 16 – February 11, 1987
I am interested in recording the way man expresses himself, not the sound of his physical voice, but the silent expressions of his inner sanctum. It is from here that he manifests the true nature of us all, our collective need to create the world we live in.
In personal as well as public spaces, we find monuments to man’s relationship with ritual, ceremony, nature, and culture. We rarely consider these creations as being sacred or religious, and yet, they represent our connection to a past where all life was interconnected and all things had life. In my photographs I try to connect with this spirit of the past which still lives but is often unseen, unrecognized, or forgotten.
Rich Rollins is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He has a BS degree in Education from the University of Vermont and an MFA degree in Photography from Arizona State University. Rich taught photography and photo- history at Marylhurst University for 28 years. He is married to a photographer, Barbara Gilson and they have two children, Emma and Anna.