After receiving his BS degree from Drake University in 1975, Robert Hansen attended the Brooks Institute of Photography and soon received the Thiesen Scholarship Award for excellence in photojournalism. In 1979 Robert started his commercial photography business specializing in architectural, small product, and editorial portraiture photography where he won many design awards for his work. His work with famous architect Wallace Neff, Jr. was first published in 1987 and recently his large format portfolio on the architecture of Wallace Neff was presented at The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. Robert’s fine art photography is included in numerous private, commercial, and museum collections throughout the United States, Germany, and Mexico. In 2004, Laguna Wilderness Press published his 10-year Mexican photography project as Yucatán Passages; a portfolio from that book is part of the collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatán and in the permanent collection of the Huntington Library, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Laguna Art Museum, The Butler Museum of Art, and The Permanent Collection of the Festival of Arts.. In 2009, Robert was commissioned by the U.S. Navy to photograph the ancient Indian Rock art on the Navel Weapons Base at China Lake. Over 36 pieces were selected for permanent display at the base. Every year since 1978, the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts has included Robert Hansen’s photography at this juried venue. Robert’s clients include architects and builders photographing iconic homes inhabited by Jack Lemmon, Vincent Minelli, Katherine Hepburn as well as the Gillette Mansion, The Ojai Inn and Spa, and the Doheny Library in Camarillo.