PHOTOS BY ROBERT LONG

Robert Hill Long works as an artistic photographer in sequences of narrative, lyrical, and place-based images, and in portraiture, candid/street photography, and landscape. His work has been exhibited at the Downtown Initiative for Visual Arts, Dot Dotson’s, and New Zone Gallery.

As a poet and author of six books, he has won five literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the North Carolina Arts Council. His books The Work of the Bow (1997) and The Kilim Dreaming (2010) received national publication prizes; his work has been widely anthologized, including appearances in Best American Poetry and the original Flash Fiction, and has appeared in journals across America. His most recent book, Walking Wounded (2012), is concerned with the social and personal damages of recent American wars. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Life on the Streets

Occupy Eugene Street Art

Occupy Eugene at Washington Jefferson Park

Occupy Eugene at the City Council – December 2011

SLEEPS Protest at Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza – 2012

SLEEPS Protest at the Old Federal Building on 7th & Pearl

Occupy Eugene – University of Oregon Protest – 2012

Occupy Eugene Statewide Assembly – February 25, 2012

Occupy Medical – The Mobile Clinic Bus

Whoville

Whoville at the NW Expressway & River Rd.

Whoville on 6th Avenue by the Federal Courthouse – Fall 2014