PHOTOGRAPHER

If we will always associate L. Ron Hubbard with the written word, then let us not forget he also wrote with light. Properly, the story of Ron as consummate photographer, commenced in 1918 with a cherished Kodak Brownie. He had previously experimented with a wooden-box camera, presumably a gift from a grandfather. But the Kodak, among the earliest models to employ roll film, offered real flexibility and even his initial efforts reveal a firm eye for composition.

His experience as professional photographer ranges from a 1927 apprenticeship in the Mayhew Photo Studio on the island of Guam to his celebrated photographs of China’s Great Wall, and from southern English landscapes to the New World’s oldest synagogue for a brochure in 1975. All evidence to the fact that Ron’s photographic career was just as exacting, just as extensive and just as prolific as each of his many endeavors.

In total, L. Ron Hubbard’s photographic works comprise a library of some forty thousand images-from his earliest shots with that Kodak Brownie to the landscapes of Sussex and seascapes of the Caribbean – all of which describe a man who long wrote with light.

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