Background
Robinson was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
Robinson was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
He attended Enniskillen High School and Portora Royal School.
Preoccupied with the landscape of leisure he is best known as the creator of Golfers (published by Glass 2000),, and He has worked commercially throughout his career, creating images for Penguin books, Polydor, Electric and Music Industries, Sony, Adobe, Pfizer, and editorially, working for The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. Robinson was commissioned by Penguin to photograph the dub-reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson for the cover of his 2001 modern classics book Mi Revalueshanary French.
Robinson has also created images of The Divine Comedy for their album Regeneration and for recent releases by Guillemots.
In 2007 he featured in British Broadcasting Corporation series Britain in Pictures in which he was filmed whilst photographing ballrooms and other inspirational buildings in the province where he grew up. Also in 2007 he contributed landscape images to the British Broadcasting Corporation Culture Show illustrating an interview with United States singer Gwen Stefani.
In 2012, Robinson created a children"s book titled The Mushroom Picker, using an experimental "luminogram" process that produces "beautifully intricate, playful and at times surreal" images which "evoke other worlds, full of magic, menace and a mischievous sense of humour." Robinson"s images have been exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and beyond, and featured in the United States touring show Picturing Eden, initiated by George Eastman House in Rochester, curated by Deborah Klochko. A book of the exhibition is published by Steidl.
Wonderland - Photofusion, London, 2003 Wonderland - Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, North.Ireland, 2003 Computer Portraits - Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, North.Ireland, 2003 Golfscapes - Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, North.Ireland, 2003 Fantastic Realism (group) - Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia 2004 Picturing Eden (group) - George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 2006 Picturing Eden - Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 2007 An Unusual Garden (group) - Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, 2013 Factual Nonsense (group) Red Gallery, London, 2014.