For many years Robin Cowings' work was primarily limited to commercial photography, having worked for magazines and theatres, producing fashion and editorial photography. His more personal work operates on the boundaries of the "commercial image" and more experimental art photography. In 2000 Robin had an exhibition entitled REMIX which was his first attempt at reconciling the two areas. Effectively the exhibition was, to use the musical term, a remix of old work previously used in a different context. Many of the images were destroyed, pulled apart, cropped, sliced into pieces with scalpels, deconstructed, then using traditional darkroom and digital techniques, put back together, spliced, juxtaposed and recontextualised to create new, more personal narratives. This way of working has continued, becoming more autobiographical. Robin is now introducing images and narratives relating to childhood, relationships and loss into recent work, remixing "snaps" for example, from birthdays, holidays and social gatherings. New work has built on these themes relating to birth, death and the 'journey' through life. Since 1991 Robin Cowings has been a photography lecturer; currently teaching at City of Sunderland College. Robin is subject leader of the Foundation Degree in Applied Photography and HND Photography courses.