Rob Stephenson is a New York based photographer whose work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for Arts the Design Trust for Public Space who published his first book, From Roof to Table.
In Myths of the Near Future Rob Stephenson considers the “Space Coast” of Florida after the closing of the Kennedy Space Center’s shuttle program. Interested both in documenting the very real economic struggles communities surrounding the Space Center have faced in the aftermath of the program’s end, and in exploring the “ambiguous realm between dream and reality, between past and future, nature and technology,” Stephenson’s photographs provide a portrait of a place suspended: “nostalgi[c] for the future as the promise of the Space Age slowly fades away.”