Rob Lewis is a freelance photographer, filmmaker and co-founder of the sponsorship foundation Janma.org in the Nepalese Himalayas. His work takes him abroad time and again; as a result, Lewis has traveled to over 60 countries.
After his training as a mediamatiker at the Berufsschule in Biel, he worked for six years in a CI/CD agency (visu'l AG). He then studied photodesign at the School of Design in Zurich (Media Form and Color). For the past 13 years, Lewis has been self-employed as a commercial photographer (Switzerland Tourism, Jungfrau Railways, Phonak, Lindenhof Group, Migros, Bern University of the Arts, Schlachthaus Theater, Zermatt Unplugged, Seaside Festival and others). In recent years, Rob Lewis has also worked increasingly on artistic projects, such as collaborations with Jojo Mayer and his band Nerve, with Mario Batkovic, Mich Gerber, Marius Bear, Jürg Halter and the art screen printer Lorenz Bögli.
Rob Lewis has so far published three documentary photo books about Himalaya ("Helping Hands", "Bung" self-published and "PASANG", ASVerlag (2016) and a portrait book about dementia patients of the Schönberg Center in Bern ("I am. Am I? (2016), Stämpfli Verlag) have been published. Lewis's first film "Lunar Tribute", a documentary about astronaut Charlie Duke (Apollo 16), which premiered at the world-renowned Margaret Mead Film Festival New York in 2017, caused quite a stir.
Rob Lewis (* 1981 in Barbados), lives and works in Bern.