Robert Babylon
Robert Babylon is a professional artist and photographer specialising in fetish and erotic digital art for the 21st Century. He is perhaps best known for his stunning erotic UV photography.
His work been exhibited in several major fetish establishments, including the Las Vegas Erotic Heritage Museum and the Amora Academy of Relationships and Sex in London. His work has been published in magazines and books including Skin Two, Secret, Graal, Jade, Desire, Fetish Photo Anthology and Erotic Signature’s ‘The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today’.
My work has been heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement; the images of Man Ray, the photomontages of artists like Herbert Bayer and of course the incomparable Salvador Dali. Other favourite photographers include Angus McBean for his portraiture and collages and Günter Blum for his fishnet/body images.
My riotous use of colour is inspired by the psychedelic 60s posters of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. Like many of the new school of, mainly selftaught, digital artists my influences are wide reaching and include the architecture of Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis who created the surreal village of Portmeirion in North Wales (set of the TV series The Prisoner).
I enjoy films by Luis Buñuel, Kenneth Anger and Peter Greenaway. Music is also an important inspiration and I regularly listens to artists like Pink Floyd, System 7, The Beatles, Underworld, The Orb, King Crimson and Eat Static.
I was born in Surrey in 1961. I worked for the Ministry of Defence on the British National Space Programme in the 1980s. I lectured in Video Production. Project Manager for one of the UK’s leading digital media agencies and spent a short spell working in the Seychelles for their television service. However, photography and the new creative opportunities afforded by digital manipulation, were my main passions and so I studied to gain an honours degree in Media Production at Bournemouth University at the age of 30 where I was the only student to major in combining video and animated 3D computer graphics.