Relevant Employment
Visiting Instructor, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2004, 2006.
Freelance Photographer, Marshall, North Carolina, 1988 - present,
specializing in social issue work for non-profit and editorial clients.
Research Associate, Southern Oral History Program, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2000.
Staff Photographer & Director of Communications, Rural Advancement
Fund, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1986 - 1988.
Freelance Photographer, Asheville, North Carolina, 1982 - 1986.
Instructor of Photography & Director of Photo Archives, Mars Hill College,
Mars Hill, North Carolina, 1976 - 1978.

Education
BS University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1969.

Awards
Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, the Western North Carolina
Historical Association, for Sodom Laurel Album, 2003.
Independent Scholars Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002.
Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies,
Duke University, Durham, NC, 1998.
Alternate Visions Grant, Alternate Roots, Atlanta, GA, 1996.
North Carolina Humanities Council, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2006.
Fellowship in Photography, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, 1990.
Visual Arts Project Grant, North Carolina Arts Council, 1989.
Documentary Grant, North Carolina Arts Council, 1988, 1989.
Fellowship in Photography, Southern Arts Federation/National
Endowment for the Arts, 1987.
Photographic Survey Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1978.

Publications (selected listing)
“Quartet, Four North Carolina Photographers,” Safe Harbor Books, 2005.
“Who is that feller? Why it’s Rob Hamburger.” North Carolina Humanities
Council, 2003.
“Sodom Laurel Album,” Center for Documentary Studies and University of North
Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, book, 2002.
”Highway Through Heaven,” Audubon Magazine, New York, NY,
photographs, 2000.
“May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History and Cultures of
Western North Carolina,” Asheville, NC, 1997, 2000.
“I-26 and the Will of God,” Southern Quarterly, Hattiesburg, MS, 1997.
“BMW follows a Trend to the Southeast,” The New York Times, New
York, NY, photographs, 1996.
“Family Farmers in Poverty,” Clearinghouse Review, Chicago, IL,
photographs, 1996.
“Vanishing,” The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens,
GA, portfolio, 1996.
“Far from the Courtrooms, Tobacco’s Rituals Endure,” The New York
Times, New York, NY, photographs, 1995.
“The Engaged Observer,” Southern Changes, Southern Regional
Council, photographs and interview, 1995.
“I Do It for the Money,” Foundation News, Council on Foundations,
Washington, DC, photographs and narrative, 1994.
“Me and Dellie Go to the Art Museum,” Crossroads: Journal for the
Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, MS, photographs and
narrative, 1993.
“Tobacco, Chickens and Junior: Glimpses of the Rural Carolinas,” Spirit
Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, catalog, 1992.
“New Southern Photography,” Aperture Magazine, New York, NY, 1989.
“Rob Amberg: Interview and Portfolio,” The Southern Quarterly,
Hattiesburg, MS, 1989.
“Ruling the Roost,” Southern Exposure Magazine, Durham, NC, 1989.
“The Independent,” Durham, NC, contributing photographer, 1984 - 1991.
“The Sun,” Chapel Hill, NC, 1987 - 1999.
“Farmer’s Legal Action Report,” Farmer’s Legal Action Group, St. Paul,
MN, 1987 -1989.
“Manifest Destiny: Unsettling America’s Family Farmers,” The Light
Factory, Charlotte, NC, catalog, 1987.
“Smithsonian Magazine,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1985.

Exhibitions (selected one person)
“Sodom Laurel Album,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2002,
three year traveling exhibit in conjunction with book.
“I-26, Corridor of Change: A Work in Progress,” N.C. Museum of History,
Raleigh, NC, 1999.
“Three Decades of Harvests,” Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC, 1997.
“Gettin’ Gone: The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture, Lehigh University Art
Galleries, Bethlehem, PA, 1996.
“Rob Amberg: Photographs,” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1994.
“While I was gone, Since I’ve been home,” Captains Bookshelf, Asheville,
NC, 1994.
“Simon Peter Norton, Jr.,” Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art,
Greensboro, NC, 1993.
“Tobacco, Chickens and Junior: Glimpses of the Rural Carolinas,” Spirit
Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, 1992.
“Photographs from Sodom Laurel,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville,
NC, 1977.

Exhibitions (selected group)
“Hand and Eye: 15 Years of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize,” The
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2005.
“The Social Lens,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque,
NM, 2003.
“Life Cycles,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
NC, 2000.
“Evicted Sentiments: Southern Documentary Photography,”
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC,1998.
“Rob Amberg and Erika Hubatschek: Photographs,” North Carolina
Museum of History, Raleigh, NC,1997.
“Southern Photography, A Personal Selection,” curated by Paul
Kwilecki, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, 1996.
“Into Their Labors: Images from the Southern Appalachians,
Brunnenburg Agricultural Museum, South Tirol, Italy, 1994.
“Rob Amberg and Tom Daniel: Photographs,” pARTS, Minneapolis, MN,
1993.
“Taking a Stand: Art and Social Vision,” Green Hill Center for North
Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC, 1991.
United Artists Gallery of Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR, 1990.
“New Southern Photography,” Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation,
New York, NY, traveling, 1989 - 1991.
“That’s What I Like About the South,” Greensboro Artists League,
Greensboro, NC, 1989.
“Five Years of Independent Photography,” The Independent, Durham,
NC, 1988.
“SAF/NEA Fellowship Recipients,” The Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta,
GA, traveling, 1988 - 1990.
“Manifest Destiny: Unsettling America’s Family Farmers,” The Light
Factory, Charlotte, NC, traveling, 1987 - 1990.

Lectures, Presentations (selected)
Library of Congress, the Center for the Book, Washington, DC, 2003.
National Folklore Society, Rochester, NY, 2002.
Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2002.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2001.
Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, 2001.
Oral History Association, Durham, NC, 2000.
University of North Carolina - Asheville, Asheville, NC, 2000.
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC,1992,1999, 2003.
Speakers Bureau, North Carolina Humanities Council, 1998 - .
Appalachian Studies Conference, 1998, 2001, 2004.
Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC, 1997.
The Linear Conference, The Appalachian Consortium, Boone, NC, 1997.
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC, 1996.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1995.
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1994.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1993.
Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, 1992.
Society for Photographic Education, Charleston, SC, 1991.

Collections
Texas Tech University, Special Collections Library
North Carolina Museum of Art
Duke University, Special Collections Library
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
University of New Mexico
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Museum of Fine Arts - Houston
Ogden Museum of Art - New Orleans
The Asheville Art Museum
University of North Carolina, School of Law
North Carolina State University, School of Art and Design
Western Carolina University Art Department
Blue Spiral 1 Gallery
University of North Carolina - Asheville
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Southern Appalachian Photographic Archives, Mars Hill College
R. J. Reynolds Corporation
Asheville Savings Bank