Meet the Artist: Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori, a Canadian photographer, acclaimed for his expansive, intricately detailed
images of architectural spaces. His seven aerial photographs capture Akra Kome, an ancient
Nabataean port that connected to Red Sea to Hegra in the 1st century BC–AD, south of Al Wajh,
northwest Saudi Arabia. Polidori’s large-format photographs reveal the beauty of neglected and
transformed spaces, from Chernobyl to New Orleans after Katrina, and include major projects
such as documenting the restoration of Versailles. His work has been exhibited internationally
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Academy of Art, and Musée de l’Elysée, and is held in
major collections including MoMA and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Meet the Artist:
The public program will include a gallery tour and conversation with Robert Polidori at the Red
Sea Museum. Audiences will have the opportunity to engage directly with the artist, his works,
and his approach to photography.

This special encounter offers audiences a rare opportunity to meet Robert Polidori in the
presence of his commissioned works at the Red Sea Museum. Through an intimate gallery tour
and conversation, visitors will gain insight into his artistic process and his approach to
landscape, memory and the hidden life of places. The session invites the public to look more
closely at the Red Sea through the eyes of one of the most distinctive photographers of
architectural spaces.