Bob Boyer

Robert Boyer, 50, is currently the Director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's performing arts series, the Patten Performances. As a former architectural, advertising and corporate photographer, he spent more than 20 years producing still photography and later, Quicktime VR panoramic image files for architects, contractors and manufacturers. He also spent many years documenting the various projects and processes of urban design and sustainable development issues in Chattanooga for the RiverCity Company, among others.

A passion - and creative release at that time as well as now, has been landscape photography, particularly of east Tennessee and the mountains of the Tellico watershed and western North Carolina. An avid fly-fisher, Boyer has spent considerable time in the Tellico area combining photography and trout fishing.

His combined interests in conservation issues and urban redevelopment have provided the impetus to continue documenting the land in east Tennessee as well as Chattanooga - to not only show the natural beauty that surrounds us but to also make a case for developing our urban areas intelligently enough that we take development pressure off the remaining wild land.

Boyer is a past President of the Tennessee Chapter of  the American Society of Media Photographers and a former board member of the Chattanooga Advertising Federation. He has a background in marketing and corporate communications as well as photography, having worked for several years with the Tennessee Valley Authority's corporate communications staff and in economic development marketing.

Boyer's awards include best of shows in the 1992 Chattanooga Advertising Federation "ADDY" competition and the 1984 International Association of Business Communicators "Golden Pen" competition as well as two print categories in the 1995 "ADDY" competitioin, third place in the national "America's Energy Picture" contest and several awards of merit in other ADDY and IABC competitions.