Stuart Rome

Who is Stuart Rome?

Stuart Rome is an American artist photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied under John Pfahl while receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Stuart Rome also received an MFA from Arizona State University.

Rome's early work was color photography and focused substantially on third-world cultures and anthropology. With more recent work, Rome has turned his attention to black and white landscape photography, pursuing specifically the spiritual relationships between human cultures and the landscape. His work has been collected by the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San, Francisco, CA.

Rome currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.