Robert Goldstein attended the School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA  1978 – 1981. Leaving NYC in

1984 he began a career in fashion photography and landed his first job with Italian Vogue,

working with Manuela Pavesi on numerous fashion stories. Work with various other

international fashion magazines followed.

Leaving Italy for London he changed direction from fashion to reportage. In 1991 he began

freelancing and worked with Colin Jacobsen on the Saturday Supplement for the Independent

Newspaper. In 1993-4 Goldstein worked with UK Unicef in South Sudan. Subsequently a show

of his South Sudan photos, was exhibited at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool,UK. A solo show

at Smiths Gallery, London, followed. Alongside this work Goldstein photographed in the music

industry, in theatre, in film and advertising, also working for various publications including GQ

and Vanity Fair.

While continuing his commercial work he begun teaching photography at Chalcot, BESD School

in Camden, inner city, London. ( Behavioural, Emotional and Social Disorders).  During this time

Goldstein documented the everyday life of the school.  An exhibition of his and the students

photography was exhibited at the Cork St Gallery, West End, London