Robert Mack is an artist who works in a wide range of media: fine art photography, film documentaries, haiku video installations, painting, and is currently developing several dramatic feature film projects. Robert was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to an American father and German mother, lived in many countries throughout his youth, and finally settled in America in the 1960's. After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in film, art and media studies, he was an artist-in-residence at an experimental school near Washington D. C. where he taught photography & film. He also owned and operated The Decci Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland that exhibited work by Robert, his father Matthew, a noted ' plein air ' watercolor artist, and other respected painters. As a fine art photographer, Robert conceived The Perkins Project, a haunting and powerful photography and film essay on the subject of the criminally insane. This photography work by Robert and Grace Zaccardi received a major nine-week exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art and ten of their photographic prints are in the museum's permanent collection. Blaze-Out