Statement at 2024

I see two major developments in our art during 2024. One is a growing confidence in how I could describe our aeshetic, which would be the word “intimacy”. All of our artists have a special connection with and presence in the space they work in, whether it be the landscape, people, or both. Take a look at Kathleen Casey’s image of a bunny hopping across the path in the 2025 Falmouth calendar. The second is we have begun to take advantage of advances in this platform to enable you to enjoy our art in forms beyond the calendars - note cards and prints. These have always been here on the site, but we have begun to make them more accessible, I hope. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Thank you for your support.

~ Robert

Statement at 2023

We are now broadening the our scope as to theme and medium. Although not fully thought out, we are adding “Sense of Purpose” to our themes, and we are expanding our treatment beyond photography, although I personally consider that to be a broad and creative medium with almost no bounds.

The events of the last few years have one way or another reawakened my roots in photojournalism. At the same time the intense artistic ferment of the Cape Cod and Maine communities just cannot be ignored. We will be offering the work of artists painting in oil, composing on IPads, and observing human behaviour with their Leicas as wryly as Henry Cartier Bresson could ever do.

We hope you will enjoy, and embrace. ~ Robert

Statement at 2022

Robert Manz Studio has been around for a while as the place Robert has printed his work. As a place it is the most important place on earth for me.

With this website, Robert Manz Studio means something more. It is now the place where I print my work, and the work of other fine artists whose imagery has a common thread, an aesthetic - an intimate sense of place. Hopefully it grows into a community or collaboration of artists whose love is to embrace their reality rather than to shoot it, to kiss it rather than to kill it.

I have been photographing across Cape Cod for years and publishing my work cove by cove, village by village, and town by town. Always my images embody something about the intersection between the place and my life and love and do so in a way that I hope shares something of that intersection with others - a mood, a memory, a hope. Two examples are below.

Recently I have been reaching out to some artists whose work I love and asking if I could print and publish their work in some of the formats I know - as fine art note cards, as wall calendars, and as archival prints.

Some wonderful artists have joined me and this is the collection that is growing here. Please enjoy the work, find your place, and please support the artists and their/our art.

~ Robert

and, if you are an artist, photographic or otherwise, with a sense of the wonder of a place, and you might be interested in joining us on this journey, there is some information about how we work at this link. ~Robert

special link for eight cousins