Robert Perkins

About

Filmmaker, writer, and artist best known for creating documentaries for PBS and Channel 4, including One Man's Journey and The Crocodile River. He also became an accomplished poet known for his series, The Written Image. 

Before Fame

He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He later obtained his MA from Bennington College in 2004.

Trivia

He became the first American to visit the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia following the Soviet Union's dissolution. In 2013, his film, Blind Bird Singing Rain, won the Best Canoeing Film Award from the Reel Paddling Film Festival.

Family Life

He was born in Swansea, Wales, UK.

Associated With

For his series The Written Image, he has collaborated with several renowned poets including Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and Octavio Paz.