Robert Buelteman is an artist whose works celebrate life’s beauty and wonder with deep appreciation and love. Drawn to the challenge of black-and-white landscape photography, he spent ten years documenting the Crystal Springs Watershed. This work became the award-winning monograph The Unseen Peninsula in 1995. In 1996, the Peninsula Open Space Trust commissioned him to photograph the lands of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His subsequent residency led to the 2000 monograph Eighteen Days in June.
 

That same year, a transcendent experience in the Sonoran Desert inspired him to abandon cameras, lenses, black-and-white film, and compters. “My new technique has more in common with Chinese brush painting and improvisational jazz than it does with the current practices of photography - the work is an expression of life itself.” This innovative technique led to a four-year residency at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico followed by another at Stanford University, where he continued exploring the design of life. His art has been featured in essays published in twenty-three languages across six continents and is held in public and private collections worldwide—including the Stanford University Medical Center, Apple Computer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Yale University Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Adobe Systems, Xerox, and Nikon.