Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 and today lives in Ojai, California. He received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 Polidori's acclaimed photos of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His books with Steidl include Havana (2003), Zones of Exclusion-Pripyatand Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood(2006), Parcours Muséologique Revisité(2009), Some Points in Between ... Up TillNow (2010) and Eye and I (2014).
Spend a few minutes with Topographical Histories, and you will never, I promise, look at a wall--even a simple, white one, in your office, at home, or in the cheap hotel room where you stayed the last time you traveled--in quite the same way again.--Christopher Irmscher The Od Review