TONY WOROBIEC FRPS.
Tony studied Fine Art at The University of Newcastle and spent 18 years as head of a large design
faculty in Dorset. He has won numerous awards for photography in the UK and internationally, and
has work exhibited in The London Barbican Gallery, The Independent Photographers Gallery, The Fox
Talbot Museum and Bradford’s Nation Museum of Photography. His work is in the permanent
collections of The Royal Photographic Society and The Fox Talbot Museum.
Tony has written over 120 articles for photographic magazines both here in the UK, in America and
Germany. He has been invited to write extended articles for well-respected photographic magazines
such as Black & White Photography, Practical Photography, Total Digital Photography, Digital Photo,
Digital Camera, Photo Plus and Photo Techniques USA. Several of his articles have also been
published in the German magazine Canon Foto.
He is the author of 18 books, and is currently working on a monograph for The RPS. Nearly 200,000
copies of his books have been sold worldwide and have been translated into Dutch, German,
Spanish, Taiwanese, Mandarin and rather fittingly Polish. Moreover dozens of his images have been
used for book or album covers.
Possibly his most prestigious project to date is one he shared with his wife Eva, which resulted in
“Ghosts in the Wilderness; Abandoned America”. This iconic book is often quoted by colleges and
universities as the definitive documentary on the abandoned communities of the American High
Plains. Published in 2003, it was very enthusiastically reviewed in The Guardian, The Independent,
The Washington Post and Stern Magazine in Germany. As a follow-up book “Fragments of an
American Dream” was published in 2015 which reinvestigated the same areas to see whether many
changes had occurred. Another personal project involved scouring old American highways in search
of the dwindling glamour of many of the independent diners, motels, hotels and theatres that
continue to survive. This work is an attempt to celebrate these iconic beacons which epitomize “the
American Dream” and ensure that they don’t become a fading memory. The project was also
published by AAPPL and is titled “Icons of the Highway”. Work from this project appears both on The
BBC and The Guardian websites.
Tony has been an assessor on The RPS Visual Art Panel since 1990, (formerly known as The Pictorial
Panel), and on the Landscape Panel since its inception.

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