Robert Wallis started his career in San Francisco photographing subjects ranging from Mexican-American gang culture to the gay clubbing scene at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Now London-based. Wallis has specialized in photographing countries undergoing rapid economic and social change. He is particularly concerned with the environmental impact of the global race to achieve Western standards of living in stories such as “The Dark Side of the Boom” in India where “development” means one thing for a growing urban middle class and quite another for those living on top of minerals needed to fuel the boom. This work culminated in a major multimedia exhibition at London’s School of Oriental and African studies in 2011.