Learning To See

Struggling with a midlife crisis Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects After moving from the United States to Colombia he forms a special bond with his subjects in the Amazon rainforest This connection enables him to make striking photographic images of new and undocumented species After more than 20 years of traveling searching and photographing his quest culminates with a New York City gallery show where he finally shares his images with the public