Robert Perkins (born Boston, 19 April 1949) is an American artist,
filmmaker and writer.Perkins has made documentary films for PBS in the
US and Channel Four Television Corporation in the UK since 1987, many
of which centre around solo canoe journeys around the world, usually
in remote wilderness. A mini-series called One Man's Journey
(documentary), in which he travels through the Canadian Arctic, for
example, aired on PBS in 2005.Perkins was the first American to travel
to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia after the dissolution of the
Soviet Union, which he documented in his 1991 film Yankee in
Kamchatka. He traveled down the Limpopo River in Africa for his 1993
film The Crocodile River, the Great Fish River in Northern Canada for
both his 1987 film Into the Great Solitude and his 1997 book Talking
to Angels, the Connecticut River for his 1994 film Home Waters, the
lower Colorado River for his 2012 film Blind Bird Singing Rain, for
which he won the Best Canoeing Film award at the 2013 Reel Paddling
Film Festival and finally, he canoed from London to Scotland exploring
his heritage for his 1993 film One Man in a Boat Aside from his films,
Perkins is also known for The Written Image, an ongoing series of
intimate and personal collaborations with poets. These are unusual
portraits of poets which he embarked upon in the 1970s. The series has
been created in collaboration with renowned poets including two Nobel
Laureates Seamus Heaney and Octavio Paz. Allen Ginsberg and Robert
Lowell.
filmmaker and writer.Perkins has made documentary films for PBS in the
US and Channel Four Television Corporation in the UK since 1987, many
of which centre around solo canoe journeys around the world, usually
in remote wilderness. A mini-series called One Man's Journey
(documentary), in which he travels through the Canadian Arctic, for
example, aired on PBS in 2005.Perkins was the first American to travel
to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia after the dissolution of the
Soviet Union, which he documented in his 1991 film Yankee in
Kamchatka. He traveled down the Limpopo River in Africa for his 1993
film The Crocodile River, the Great Fish River in Northern Canada for
both his 1987 film Into the Great Solitude and his 1997 book Talking
to Angels, the Connecticut River for his 1994 film Home Waters, the
lower Colorado River for his 2012 film Blind Bird Singing Rain, for
which he won the Best Canoeing Film award at the 2013 Reel Paddling
Film Festival and finally, he canoed from London to Scotland exploring
his heritage for his 1993 film One Man in a Boat Aside from his films,
Perkins is also known for The Written Image, an ongoing series of
intimate and personal collaborations with poets. These are unusual
portraits of poets which he embarked upon in the 1970s. The series has
been created in collaboration with renowned poets including two Nobel
Laureates Seamus Heaney and Octavio Paz. Allen Ginsberg and Robert
Lowell.
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