Robert Sumner Prior to founding Red Box Pictures, Rob Sumner was the photo assignment editor at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He managed the day-to-day operations of the photo desk, helped plan photographic coverage across all sections of the paper and edited photographers’ work. In March of 2009, when the P-I stopped printing, he joined three former P-I photographers to start Red Box Pictures, a Seattle-based commercial and editorial photography studio. Rob was part of the team that helped the P-I win a second place for best use of photography in the most recent Best of Photojournalism (BOP) contest, finishing behind The New York Times. Prior to joining the P-I, Rob worked as a photographer at The Herald News in suburban Chicago and at the Journal Tribune in Biddeford, Maine. He has a BA in history from Connecticut College and an MA in visual communication from Ohio University.