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.

United Photo Industries (UPI)

United Photo Industries (UPI) is a New York based nonprofit organization that works to promote a wider understanding of, and increased access to, the art of photography.

Since its founding in 2011, UPI has rapidly solidified its position in the public art landscape by continuing to showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography from across the globe. In its first seven years, UPI has presented the work of more than 2,500 visual artists in gallery exhibitions and public art installations worldwide.