Robert Cassway is an award winning Architect and Photographer, who has always been interested in the concept of elegant decay. Mr. Cassway has spent many years photographing the indiginous architecture of the Mediterranean, from Italian hill towns to Greek villages clinging to mountain sides.

This web site is meant to show the variety of Cassway's work

In recent years Cassway has traveled to the western part of the United States and Canada photographing the quickly disappearing structures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is called "The Vanishing West" These structures include gold, silver and copper mining communities, ghost towns, wooden grain elevators, abandoned homesteads, churches and schools. These buildings represent what is left of the efforts of the western pioneers to build a better life and to seek their fortune. These structures are quickly disappearing due to neglect and weather. Each year scores of wooden grain elevators are torn down, or simply collapse. These magnificent structures, once called the cathedrals of the prairie, are now considered liabilities, in many communities. But, even in neglect these structures are glorious against the flat landscape and high sky.Cassway’s Vanishing West photographs were taken over a period of fifteen years. Mr. Cassway has traveled to Colorado, Utah, Arizona,Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, California, Nevada, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, some states several times, in order to record these images.

Cassway’s photographs are taken in a documentary style, each picture is meant to tell part of the story of the pioneer’s westward movement. Many of the photographs are presented in a panoramic format, in order to emphasize the vastness of the northwest prairies.
Cassway’s “vanishing West” photographs were taken over a period of fifteen years. Mr. Cassway has traveled to Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, California, Nevada, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, some states several times, in order to record the images.
The photographs were taken using a Pentax 67 ll medium format camera. The majority of the photos were taken with a 75 mm architectural shift lens. The remainder was taken using a 45 mm wide angle lens.


The negatives were processed in the normal manner and then scanned to a high resolution disc. The images were then downloaded into Photoshop, where they were cropped and given minimal adjustments.

Cassway’s work has appeared in many national and regional juried shows and he has had several one person shows. His photographs have won numerous awards.
Cassway was selected by the Texas Photographic Society as outstanding Emerging Artist in the 2011 Portfolio II competition. The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins Colorado selected Cassway’s work to be shown in their Portfolio Showcase Volume 3 in 2010.

Mr.Cassway's work has been widely published, and his photographs are in many private collections.