ROBERT MÜLLER was in the service of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs until the end of October 2005, when he retired from his position as Consul General of Switzerland in Cape Town. He now lives in Hout Bay near Cape Town. He has been practising photography as a hobby since his youth.

During his posting to Windhoek (1990 to 1996) he developed a fascination for the unique beauty and diversity of the Namibian landscape and the Namib Desert in particular, where the interplay of light and shadow and the textures have been a particular source of inspiration.

He has held exhibitions in Namibia and in London as well as at The Cape Gallery in July 2005 and October 2006. He has also published 15 calendars of Namibia's landscape.

One part of his exhibition shows abstractions of sand dunes in the Namib Desert. In the other part of his exhibition Robert MÜller makes an approach to the art of 

PHOTO IMPRESSIONISM, pictures of nature, making use of a technique which is not computer manipulated: Three shots are taken on slide film. They are of the same subject but with different focus positions. The resultant photographs are then put together in one frame.

They bring the photographer beyond the world of seeing to the world of feeling, beyond documentation to personal expression, beyond physical fact to emotional reality.

Below is a quote from Robert Mueller speaking of his work on the "Dreamscapes" exhibition at The Cape Gallery:

“I have taken innumerable pictures of the remarkable and fascinating camelthorn trees in the Namib Desert - some of which have stood there like monuments for probably hundreds of years. On a recent journey to Sossusvlei I felt that there was more to photography than just recording what I saw. I wanted to convey my feelings through my camera lens. That is how I started to use a technique I had heard about from my photography teacher, the great Master of Photography, Freeman Patterson. The technique is known as multiple exposure or slide montage.

This technique takes the photographer beyond the world of seeing to the world of feeling, beyond documentation to personal expression, beyond physical fact to emotional reality. It takes the photographer and the viewer to the world of PHOTO IMPRESSIONISM and the SUBJECTIVE IMAGE.

The pictures on exhibition are not computer manipulated. Three shots are taken on slide film. They are of the same subject but with different focus positions. The resultant photographs are then put together in one frame.”

Robert Müller has been a keen photographer since his youth. During his posting to Windhoek (1990 to 1996) he developed a fascination for the unique beauty and diversity of the Namibian landscape, and the Namib Desert in particular, where the interplay of light and shadow and the textures have been a particular source of inspiration.

His photographs have won several awards at International Salons of Photography and he has held three exhibitions in Namibia and one in London. Typoprint (Pty) Ltd., Windhoek, have published nine calendars of his pictures.