About Me
Where I've been
Robert McLuckie is an American visual artist currently working in street and documentary photography. He studied at the Institute of Design/IIT in Chicago.
Robert opened his studio in 1983 after having been featured in Fortune Magazine as a top annual report photographer while working in-house as Advertising Photography Manager for a large corporation. Originally concentrating on illustrative editorial photography, new technologies as applied to graphic design moved the studios' focus to that of bleeding-edge pioneer in computer-aided art and page layout. Robert was digitally producing national magazines as early as 1986 and was awarded the title of Masters' Master by Aldus Corporation (later acquired by Adobe). McLuckie Photo & Design evolved into McLuckie Design Group, consisting of Minds’Eye Design and dMax Digital Prepress in order to separate imagesetting, prepress and technical consulting. The design branch focused on typographic and simple-image solutions to corporate identity, annual report, high-end capability and collateral materials to regional and international corporations.
By 2000, Robert had transitioned to teaching visual communications at a private Chicago art college in both the BFA and MFA programs. He also acted as the technology manager, upgrading, troubleshooting and maintaining consistent workstations across multiple classrooms. After developing a Bauhaus-inspired photography major from conception to accreditation for both degree programs, he left for Beijing in 2009 to document the cultural and historic hutong neighborhoods while working as an art director for a large design firm.
He now lives half the year in the US and half the year in Asia. —Zou (Echo) Xiaolin
Where I am
An amazing Chinese artist, Han Jinyu (Ting Ting), used to say that I was extra-special ordinary. In reality, I'm just an ordinary man that has had an extra-special life. Not all of the chapters were pretty, and that’s probably the reason China has become my retreat, filling my head with a fresh and enhanced perspective. It's jammed with humanity, spirituality, culture, authenticity and the human struggles that bring a camera to my eye.
