I've been photographing the landscape for over 30 years and have been working on a series of portraits of Hotchkiss School students for the last thirteen years.

The works included in this show reflect some of my more recent landscapes from varied locations such as the Southwest, Florida, Maine, Illinois and Connecticut. These photographs have to do with my emotional, tactile, and visceral response to form and to my attempt to make photographs that are somehow coherent.

Robert Haiko is originally from Wethersfield. Connecticut. He is Chairman of the Photography and Film Department at the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Connecticut where he is also Co-Director of the Tremaine Gallery. He has a bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Boston University, did graduate work with Minor White at MI,T and he has a Mater of Fine Arts degree from Rode Island School of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan.

His work has been exhibited widely, including at the New Britain Museum of American Art; The Lyman Allyn Museum in New London; The Midtown-y Gallery in New York City; Boston University and Yale University.

He received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

Mr. Haiko's work is represented in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; George Eastmen House, Rochester; the Polaroid Collection; the Minor White Archive at Princeton University; and the Paul Strand Archives, New York City.

His work has appeared in a variety of publications including Aperture, Camera, and Exposure.