About — M.H. Rubin
“This might not seem like nothing to you now, but it will.”
This is me: I have been a photographer for more than 40 years, a writer for fewer, a long time resident of the Bay Area, but now fully in New Mexico.
When I was a kid, I was a protégé of Jerry Uelsmann; his surreal images were everywhere around me at home. I’ve never been a professional photographer, but I’d say I’m a professional amateur — and spend my time evangelizing photographic exploration for regular people. Some of my work these days involves managing a large photographic collection. I write and teach.
Concurrent with photography, I’ve had a fun entrepreneurial career that has spanned industries such as publishing, consumer retail, entertainment media, and technology. Highlights included Lucasfilm, Netflix, and Adobe, but there were a bunch of failed startups in there. In the old days I had editing and post production roles on television and feature projects, including the CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove and the Bertolucci feature The Sheltering Sky. I’m proud that my ex-wife and I pioneered the you-paint-it “contemporary ceramics” industry (Color Me Mine, Petroglyph) and even prouder of the successful way we handled our divorce and parenting.
I have a degree in neuroscience from Brown University, which has been nominally useful. I’m a parent of great kids.
It’s been a long meandering career of highs and lows and my stories chronicle some of the weirdness.
In the final 100 days of 2020 I wrote 100 Stories.
One a day. A sort of practice. I tried to write down the stories that I heard myself tell over the years. Here’s most of them, in the order I wrote ‘em:
