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About Rob Lee

Rob Lee is a photographer and writer. He has written a column on urban birds, "Birdbrain," for the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as magazine pieces on natural history and a book on city birds, Angels at the Gates of Eden.
Rob's photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines, including House and Garden, Yoga Journal and Whole Earth Review. A participant in many art shows and photo exhibits, some of the pictures on this web site first appeared in the 1989 National Poetry Festival. This work dovetailed with a project photographing in a Buddhist AIDS hospice, a life changing experience that led Rob to live and work in the hospice as a staff member for a year and a half. The series of photos from the hospice became a traveling exhibit criss-crossing the bay area, and an as yet unpublished text, that builds from a narrative of the intense life in the hospice, to a meditation on our societies' uneasy relationship with death, and how deeply this sense of denial compromises our culture.

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

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[Editor's note: These photos are small! This page was first created many years ago for smaller screens. I have larger photos somewhere and will update this page as soon as possible.] Shig … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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