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He holds a BA in Modern European History, a BS in Design from the University of Michigan and studied at the London School of Film Technique. Robert Golden has produced many photo-stories for magazines and newspapers, (Nova, the Weekend Telegraph, New York Times Book Reviews, the Radio Times and many others) and many coves and interiors for Penguin, Heinemann, Fontana, the Smithsonian in Washington, etc; he devised and photograph 10 award winning books for children called THE PEOPLE WORKING SERIES and another called DOWN THE ROAD about unemployment. He has written/directed 40 documentaries winning multiple awards, 2 award winning feature films and 900 TV commercials as director/DOP. He has written 3 plays, 46 film scripts, 2 novels, poems, and essays about photography, politics and culture. Recently he has been teaching young people about Democracy and also about photo/film-storytelling for various EU projects to instigate humane social change. His first novel, A FORGETTABLE MAN, has been re-published and a collection of essays called A ROLE FOR ARTISTS IN TROUBLED TIMES was published in January 2019. He filmed a ‘lockdown’ opera by Nigel Osborne called OSMAN AND HIS SNAILS in support of a human rights prisoner, which has had more than 15 million views. He wrote a book of short essays called A ROLE FOR ARTISTS – Post Covid, and released, to positive responses. He wrote and made THIS GOOD EARTH, a documentary film about soil and climate change, landscape and species extinction and food, diets and disease. It is now distributed worldwide by Random Media and showing on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. His book about photography called TRANSIENT LIGHT, FLEETING TIME was published in 2024 to excellent responses And his latest documentary BELONGING/BECOMING is just being offered to distributors. Presently he is working on a film about Ukraine, a series of 12 illustrated video discussions about photography called THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY, a Visual Life, and he is creating a 15 part course on photography in conjunction with a Ukrainian university, soon to be made available more widely.