Eric Rubens is a travel photographer and NFT artist known for sunset photography. He studied electrical engineering and worked building satellite systems for jets and cargo planes, then took up photography as a hobby while living in San Diego, California, before turning it into a full-time career in 2016.
He built his following by photographing sunsets along the California coast and sharing them on Instagram, growing an audience of more than 400,000 followers. His travel and lifestyle photography has been commissioned by brands including Sony, Disney, Meta, and United Airlines, and he has been a member of Sony's Alpha Imaging collective since 2016. In 2021 he co-founded Collective Strangers, a photography studio connecting travel-focused artists, creatives, and photographers, which later launched the PFP NFT collection Strangers HQ. He also spearheads partnerships for Explorest, a location-discovery app with more than 300,000 users.
