Bob Raymond (1952-2012)

Bob Raymond was a photographer, videographer, and intermedia artist who documented experimental artwork in and around Mobius, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts for thirty years. He was a longtime member of Mobius Artists Group, creating video and audio works, performances, and installations, often collaborating with other artists. His academic background was in anthropology and communication theory. He worked professionally in the television industry. 

His art work has been seen in Massachusetts at Mobius, Inc, Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston University Art Gallery, the DeCordova Museum, the Fuller Museum of Art, Studio Soto, and VideoSpace at Harvard Film Archives; in New York City at Art in General, Fountain Art Fair, and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts; in Rhode Island at the Convergence International Art Festival; in Canada at Grunt Gallery in Vancouver, BC; in Italy at the Venice International Performance Art Week, and in North Macedonia at Skopje’s Cultural Information Center. His photographs have appeared in Art New England, the Boston Globe, Contact Quarterly, N.Paradoxa, P-Form, as well as other periodicals. 

Bob Raymond’s approximately 20,000 original slides and 15,000 digital images are now housed with the Mobius, Inc. records at Tufts University’s Digital Collections and Archives, Tisch Library, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.

A book of his photographs, including accompanying text by the subjects of his photos, was published in 2015 by Mobius, Inc., and is available for purchase online from the Mobius website.

Photo credit: If to Drift, 2009, in collaboration with Marilyn Arsem, Sandra Johnston, Alastair MacLennan and Natalie Loveless.  Photo by Lewis Gesner.