Roger Dorband is a native of Grants Pass, Oregon where he grew up on the Rogue River. He received a bachelors degrees in psychology from the University of Oregon before earning a second degree in fine art from Portland State University in 1975. He twice exhibited sculpture in the Portland Art Museum's Artists of Oregon series, was included in a national drawing exhibition and the Oregon Print Makers Annual. He received both public and private sculpture commissions and exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions before turning to photography.

In 1993 Dorband's black and white photography was published in a collaboration with writer Ursula K. LeGuin entitled Blue Moon Over Thurman Street. In addition to photographing in the Northwest, he has traveled extensively creating bodies of photographs from Europe, Mexico, Egypt and India. His photographs are included in numerous private and corporate collections and in the collection of the Portland Art Museum. Dorband lives in Astoria, Oregon with his wife, psychiatrist Patricia Barnes, and two cats.

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