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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.

Current Exhibitions Featuring Robin Schwartz

Mikayla Raines’ Save A Fox Rescue

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 coming soon

Mikayla Raines’ “Save A Fox Rescue” is not a sanctuary; the nonprofit’s purpose is to rescue foxes bred for fur coats, and for the foxes to be adopted to vetted educated caretakers, after their necessary medical care and rehabilitation.

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Archive Exhibitions Featuring Robin Schwartz

South Korean Animal Cafes

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

What’s for sale at an animal café? Something very precious: Contact.

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Growing Up Amelia

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

Through photographing adventures undertaken with her daughter, the artist blurs the lines between human and animal, where animals are part of our world and humans are part of theirs.

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