Rob Sims, an internationally recognized, award-winning photographer, began his photographic career at fourteen as a trainee custom color printer at Reflex, South England's largest print studio.  He managed to save enough money to buy his first SLR camera and took some photography lessons.

 

   

At sixteen, with motorcycle and camera, Sims left England and spent the next fourteen years traveling through ninety-six countries, so many that he was classified as the most traveled person in the world.  His travels included Outer Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.  Much of his travel time, he supported himself with his photography.  In Israel, he worked as a fashion and glamour photographer for two years.  In Thailand, he worked as a still cameraman on the movie set of "Good Morning Vietnam" and "Off Limits".   In Australia, he worked as a product and advertising photographer for Suzuki motorcycles.  He was the first photographer granted permission by the Cuban government to do a USA-Cuban fashion shoot to showcase Cuba's emerging fashion industry.

 

 

After arriving in Los Angeles seven years ago, Rob attended Santa Monica College where he received his photographic degree.  Since leaving SMC, he has worked as a freelance and staff photographer.  He was taught photography techniques for all levels, from beginners to the most advanced professionals.  Sims work has appeared worldwide in over thirty magazines and newspapers.
 

 

Rob currently specializes in celebrity work: portraiture, glamour, and fitness photography.  He has photographed numerous celebrities, including Gillian Anderson, Whitney Houston, Tom Hanks, and Brooke Shields.  He shot a forty page lingerie spread of fitness women which will be coming out in April '98.  This date is scheduled to coincide with the opening of his web site: www.fitnessbeauties.com.

 

 

This featured series of photographs were taken May 1997 with two Nikon cameras.  A Nikon FM2 and a Nikon N90S with a shutter speed of 1/30 of a second and an f-stop setting of 5.6 with natural light.  Kodak 3200 TMZ film was pushed to 6400 and developed two stops over.