"Photography, for me, has always been the reason to explore. To find the new and gain an understanding of the world. From my beginnings as a photojournalist working in South Africa, to my more commercial work, photography has always provided me with an interactive platform to ask questions and inform myself about people and their lives around me. To submerge myself in the world at large. To gain access to experiences I would never have had otherwise. All the while searching to capture beauty"
Antonie Robertson is a visual creative working as a Professional Photographer in the United Arab Emirates. He started his career in 2000 as a full time staff photojournalist for the biggest Afrikaans daily newspaper at the age of 19 in Cape Town, South Africa. From there he moved to the Middle East to work for another major (English) daily, and later left to head the photo department of a destination publisher based in Dubai.
- To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. - Henri Cartier-Bresson -