Robert Polidori, Canadian photographer born 1951, is noted for his photographs of architectural spaces, both interior and exterior. According to American Photo, “there are photographers who document the interiors and exteriors of buildings, but no one turns them into metaphors like Polidori”. Acording to an interview with Polidori on Minestota Public Radio, he likes to "photograph habitats...what people do with the habitats".
Polidori's series "New Orleans Aftter the Flood", published as a book and exhibited in the Met, documents interioes and exteriors. In an interview with Jeff Rosenhaim, Asspciate Curator of the Deparment of Photographs at the met, Polidori says "I take images of historical events," Polidori says, "but that's only the backdrop for the kind of subject matter that is about psychological loss, pathos, and a kind of paradox."
Polidori shoots with a5x7 camera (hmmm....) so his prints may be exhibited in large scale. Polidori currently works at a staff photographer for the New Yorker, and has several books published, including "New Orleans After the Flood". He has exhibited most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Polidori does not have a website; many of his photographs can be found on artnet
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