Robert Yager is a British born, award-winning photographer based in Los Angeles. Having studied photography in the US, Yager began documenting Los Angeles street gangs in 1992. Since then, Yager has been a contributing photographer to a host of magazines.
Robert Yager was born and grew up in London, England. He is a Los Angeles-based photographer. With an interest in anthropology. Particularly street culture and counter-culture and having studied Latin American Studies in the UK and Mexico, as well as photography in the US, Yager decided to delve into the world of Latino street gangs in Los Angeles. It was 1992 and he has been documenting the lives of gang members ever since.
Since the early 1990s Yager has been an editorial photographer, doing covers and features, portraits and reportage, for a host of magazines. Among them: The New York Times Magazine , The Observer (UK), The Independent , The Telegraph , The Guardian Weekend , The Sunday Times , Fortune , Fader , Esquire , Rolling Stone , Newsweek and TIME .
Among the accolades he has received, Yager was awarded a fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has twice been a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Fund Award.
Yager published a historic monograph of his Playboys Gang photography with 550BC Publishers, titled "Playboys". The first edition in 2022, and the second in 2023. In 2007 he created a book with great Circle Books, titled 'a.k.a. BooBoo', which covers a 14-year time span in the life of Cindy Martinez, a female gang member. An exhibition of this work led to becoming David Lee Roth's personal photographer, documenting his return to touring the USA & Canada in Van Halen, during 2007, 2008, and again in 2012.
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