Rob dobi biography

          Rob Dobi has been photographing the abandoned buildings of the northeast for the past twenty years.

        1. Rob Dobi has been photographing the abandoned buildings of the northeast for the past twenty years.
        2. Rob Dobi was born and raised in Connecticut, and while he was at school his talent for, and love of, illustration became apparent.
        3. HI, I'M ROB DOBI.
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        5. His full name is Robert William Dobi.

          6. HI, I'M ROB DOBI.!

          Rob Dobi was born and raised in Connecticut, and while he was at school his talent for, and love of, illustration became apparent.

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          Encouraged and supported by his parents, he continued to draw, but like most children, he was drawing for fun with little thought of his long term future.   This changed however between his junior and senior year at High School.

          “I wanted to find a job that I loved, and that led me to think of art as a possible career.   That summer I took a pre-college course in illustration and was hooked,” explains Dobi.

          Dobi enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island to study for a BFA in illustration, graduating in 2003.

          It was during his time at Providence that he found himself looking downtown and seeing all of the factories and other buildings that were falling into ruin and disrepair.   In 1999, armed with one of the earliest digital cameras on the market that took floppy discs