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LYLE ROBLIN - PHOTOGRAPHER Born in Prince George, Canada, in 1961, Lyle Roblin grew up between his native Canada and, for shorter periods of time, the United States. At age twenty he joined the Canadian Navy, but five years into a promising career an almost fatal drowning accident put an end to it. After leaving the Navy he started travelling, moving from New York to Los Angeles, London, Paris and Barcelona, and engaging in a variety of activities which enabled him to maintain a firm focus on his photographic pursuits. He finally settled down with his family in Milan, where he works as a professional photographer. Endowed with a sensitivity which enables him to feel and see the world that surrounds him with an intensity that demands expression, Lyle is a photographer of the suspended life of things. In his images, which are never conventional, he captures the details which transform objects into icons, and landscapes into simulacra of the spirit, revealing the soul - but also the flesh and sinews - of the world we live in. For a long time his shy personality, combined with a profoundly private conception of his artistic vision, made him eschew the public exhibition of his work, which was only shown privately. More recently, however, the success attained by his photographs on the occasion of public events such as the charity auctions The Art of Photography (London 1999) and Art and Charity (Sotheby's, Montecarlo 2007) persuaded him to extend his exhibiting activities to other venues. A solo exhibition devoted to the theme of industrial archaeology and entitled La vita sospesa delle cose ("The suspended life of things"), organised by Piccolo Museo Sereno, was held in May 2008 in the prestigious venue of the Società Umanitaria, in Milan, to public and critical acclaim. His latest solo exhibition, Metamorphosis (on the transformation of the textile industry in the Northern-Italian city of Biella, home to world-known names such as Zegna and Barberis-Canonico) was equally successful.
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