Robin Postell · Writer & Photographer · Adel, Georgia
Thirty years of assignment work, as it ran — whole stories, every page.
I have spent thirty years going where the story was and coming back with both halves of it — the words and the pictures. I ran the Marathon des Sables in order to write about it, three separate times for three different magazines. I walked a bed of coals for the same reason. I covered adventure racing while the sport was being invented, wrote about bitcoin while most desks still filed it under novelty, and shot fight sports from the lip of the cage before the cage was respectable.
Every story below is here in full. Click a page and the whole piece opens, spread by spread, the way it ran. Nothing is excerpted and nothing is a summary — if you want to know whether I can carry eight pages, there are eight pages.
This is a working sample, not a complete bibliography. Still coming out of the boxes: the fight-sport years, the newspaper work, the European and Korean reprints, and twenty-odd years of staff and freelance reporting filed under names that made sense at the time.
What I am doing now is at home. After a career spent on other continents I turned the lens on Cook County, Georgia, where I am from, and started writing it down before it goes. That work lives next door in The Cook Book.
Available for features, long-form narrative, profiles, photography, editing. rpostell@robinpostell.com
Eight assignments, four continents, and a standing refusal to cover a race from the press tent.
Two magazines, one bed of coals, and a reporter who took her shoes off.
People are the assignment. Everything else is scenery.
I was in the room early, and I filed.
Home, finally, on the record.