Photographer Robert Hubbard was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1945. He has a commercial photography studio in Hattiesburg called Vista Studios, which he opened in 1971.
His work is in the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photographs by Hubbard have been printed in multiple magazines and books, including Ghosts! Personal Accounts of Modern Mississippi Hauntings (1992). He produced a series of photographs entitled taken at Parchman.
In 1990, he was named Artist of the Year by the Rembrandt Society of the Mississippi Museum of Art.