ABOUT BERLIAN ARTS
Photography is the cornerstone of Diamante/Berlian Arts.
Founder and Creative Director Robert Diamante studied fine arts and art history at Pratt Institute, The Art Student’s League, and the Maine College of Art graduating with a BFA in photography. Having already photographed the work of MeCA Department Head and editor of Brynmorgen Press, Tim McCreight, Diamante Photography gradually and steadily grew until he became one of the country’s most widely published craft jewelry photographers recommended at all levels of the craft/art jewelry industry.
In 2007, after photographing the John Hardy product line for Fall 2007, he was hired by John Hardy Jewelry to restructure their international media program located in Bali, Indonesia. Working with CMO Nora Langdem and Creative Director Guy Bedarida, he was instrumental to rebrand the company in the wake of its sale from the eponymous owner. In 2008 Diamante returned to the US reestablishing Diamante Photography and creating the substrate for Berlian Arts (berlian meaning ‘diamond’, or ‘diamante’ in Indonesian) to develop as a full-spectrum creative services agency.
Photographs have appeared in American Style, American Vogue, The Crafts Report, Esquire, International Jeweler, JCK, Niche, Ornament, Town & Country and Vanity Fair. His work has been published in books produced by arts publishers Brynmorgen, Interweave and Lark. Diamante is a valued resource for jewelers on the topic of photography. He has been interviewed for books, magazines, and podcasts, including Craftcast, InStore and the MJSA Journal. He has conducted a workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and has been a classroom guest lecturer at the Maine College of Art, Northeastern, and the 92nd Street Y in N.Y.C. and has conducted webinars for Craftcast and Cindy Edelstein’s Jeweler’s Resource Bureau. Other corporate clients have included Lindt Chocolate, Stonewall Kitchen, and Amazon.