Mikayla Raines was an extraordinary achiever, dedicated to rescuing foxes bred for coats on fur farms. Mikayla founded Save A Fox Rescue, a nonprofit taking in “reject foxes” judged unworthy for coats because of medical or cosmetic reasons. Mikayla provided the foxes with extensive medical care and rehabilitation which would enable them to be adopted by carefully vetted, educated caretakers. My project, an assignment for National Geographic as well, was to document the rescued foxes, but I became mesmerized watching Mikayla’s empathetic rapport that connected her with the animals in her care. I watched Mikayla work with many other species besides her beloved foxes and her rescued bobcat, Savannah (also bred for a coat, rescued at 2 weeks). Mikayla always made it clear that foxes do not behave like dogs, that the various species of rescues behaved as who they are meant to be. The Save A Fox Rescue project is part of my Guggenheim Fellowship ongoing series on “Caretakers and Those They Rescued and How They Get Rescued Back”. My gratitude to my National Geographic editor, Alexa Keefe.
Artist Bios
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Robin Schwartz
Robin Schwartz is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in photography with photographs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, the Bibliothéque Nationale, and others. The Aperture Foundation has published two books of Robin’s 23 years photographing her daughter, Amelia & the Animals and Amelia’s World. Other monographs are LIKE US: Primate Portraits, DOG WATCHING, and a forthcoming children’s book that will be published in Europe in 2026. As a fine art and editorial photographer specializing in portraits of animals and people, her photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Telegraph, Geo Magazines, and others. Robin has presented and exhibited in festivals in Italy, France, India and Australia.
In the USA, Robin has presented at the National Geographic Seminar, Eddie Adams, Aperture, LOOK3, FotoDC and colleges. View all animal centric photography projects at www.RobinSchwartz.net.
Robin is a professor of photography and thesis at William Paterson University of New Jersey.
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Photoville
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Mikayla Raines’ Save A Fox Rescue
Featuring: Robin Schwartz
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