Spotlight: Selections from Leisure Seizure

Bob DeBris was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. ‘THE SHWA’,  for those in the know. He studied film and photography at the Banff Center, Humber College, and Connestoga College. He also attended the  College of Creative Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, as well as  a brief unhappy stint at Cal Arts.He has taught photography at the UCSB Art Dept. as well as The College of Creative Studies and run numerous  student programs for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. His work has shown in places as varied as The McCord Museum in Montreal, to the shopping carts of the Safeway in Santa Barbara. His photographs have been featured in Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American, as well as book covers for Daniel and Daniel, Norton Press, and New York University Press. For thirty years, he has been photographing interesting road side attractions, old signs, programatic architecture, mobile monuments, and funky miniature golf courses . He has been concurrently shooting burlesque dancers, women’s roller derby, Mexican wrestlers, Hispanic Easter pageanteers, gay pride parades, snowbirds in the deserts of California, folk art installations, Cher impersonators in Vegas , Elvis impersonators at Graceland, space aliens in Roswell, ventriloquists at Venthaven, So Cal civil war re-enactors and of course numerous people inside his own mobile monument to true love, “The Palace of Love.” His work can be found on line at bobdebris.com or debris.smugmug.com.