Press
COLOR Magazine
As he describes working with electricity to create his gloriously luminous botanical photographs, Robert Buelteman sounds like Dr. Frankenstein.
Science & Life Magazine (Japan)
Electric Life!
LUXE Magazine
Buelteman likens his prints more to Japanese ink brush paintings and jazz than to photographs.
New Mexico Magazine
His interest in New Mexico’s nature came through an invitation to work at the Santa Fe Institute, a research intuition—with a roster of Nobel laureates—dedicated to exploring complexity science.
Eastern Mediterranean Modern Art Journal
The most recent photogramic images of the California photographer Robert Buelteman, exposed by high voltage currents passing through plants, are particularly provocative in terms of how they exemplify, in their form, technique, and content, several key issues on the history and nature of the photographic image.
Santa Barbara Independent
Robert Buelteman’s “Through the Green Fuse” at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art!
COAST Magazine Cover
“Rubus ursinus,” better known as the California Trailing Blackberry
Wildlife (Ukrainian Magazine)
The “HIgh Life” from Ukraine’s social magazine, about Eighteen Days in June, Buelteman’s monograph about the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
American Photographer Magazine
The tight relationship between film, light, plants and Buelteman’s own hand has brought him a “connectedness that has eluded me in other parts of my life.”
Gentry Magazine
“My photographs are based more on my own internal dreamscape than the external landscape.”
Science to Sage Magazine
“Luminous botanical photography”
The Santa Fean
[At the Santa Fe Institute] even the arts and humanities are represented: novelist Cormac McCarthy and photographer Robert Buelteman are artists in residence, hobnobbing freely with the scientists.
Plugged-in Petals, San Francisco Chronicle
“Rob sees things in plant life that he is able to dramatize, thereby enhancing the viewer’s experience in a way that is really new and exciting” notes Bill Davidow, a Woodside venture capitalist, who, along with wife Sonja, owns Buelteman’s exhibition portfolio, Through the Green Fuse.