FREDRIC ROBERTS is a Photographer who resides in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. He is represented by the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Hamburg Kennedy Photographs in New York. His photographs are in the collections of Stanford University and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.

In December 2003, he was a winner in two categories of the International Photography Awards.  The awards include 1st Place for Photojournalism/Photo Essay, 1st Place for Fine Art/Landscape and 3rd Place for Photojournalism/PhotoEssay.  In 2004, he was awarded 2nd Place in the Travel/Tourism category. His first book, HUMANITAS Volume One, was a finalist for Foreward Magazine's 2005 Book Of The Year Award in the Photography category.  In December, 2007, his second book, HUMANITAS II, was featured in the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2007.  It also received Honorable Mentions in the 2007 Lucie Awards Fine Art and People categories, as did 17 of the individual images from that book.

Mr. Roberts’ work was exhibited in a solo show at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City from September 2006 to February 2007, and will be in a similar show at the Museum of Photographic Arts from May to September 2008.

Mr. Roberts is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the Santa Fe Center for Photography, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel, California.  He is a member of the Patron’s Circle of the Museum of Photographic Arts and a member of the President’s Circle and Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Mr. Roberts is the Chairman of the Board of Cost Plus, Inc., a leading specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products.  He is also a Director of Tween Brands, a specialty retailer of apparel, lifestyle and personal care products for fashion-aware young girls ages seven to fourteen years. 

In 2000, Mr. Roberts retired from the finance industry after more than 30 years as an investment banker.  In 1980, he established F.M. Roberts & Company, a Los Angeles based investment banking company.  He served as 1993 Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), which then owned and operated The Nasdaq Stock Market.  From 1994 to 1996, he was a member of the Nasdaq Board of Directors and its Executive Committee.  He has also been the Chairman of the NASD’s Corporate Financing and Strategic Planning Committees and the Nasdaq Marketing Committee, as well as a member of the National Nominating, Rate Formulation and Listing Qualifications Committees

Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Yale University and The Hill School and is an active member of the business and cultural communities in Los Angeles. He is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Executive and Finance Committees of the Los Angeles Music Center.  He is also Chairman Emeritus of the Music Center’s Fraternity of Friends and Founding Chairman of the Spotlight Awards Scholarship Program.  He has been a frequent lecturer for the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California Los Angeles and the Young Presidents’ Organization.  He has written several articles on corporate finance for Chief Executive Magazine.  He is the former Cellar Master of the Los Angeles chapter of the Commanderie de Bordeaux and past president of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.