Lesson 9 CONTENT: Collaborative Portraiture

Robin Schwartz

Robin Schwartz (b. 1957, Passaic, New Jersey) is known for her portraits exploring interspecies relationships. People and animals appear as equals in these curious images. She has described her pictures as “evidence of the invented worlds we explore and the fables we enact.” Her book Amelia & The Animals (Aperture, 2014) features portraits of her daughter and muse, Amelia, alongside a wide variety of animals, including elephants, llamas, ponies, and cats. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, both in New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. She is an assistant professor of photography at William Paterson. She received her MFA in photography from Pratt Institute. Dulce Pinzón

Dulce Pinzón (b. 1974, Mexico City) is a documentary photographer whose work has a satirical tone to it. Her project The Real Story of the Superheroes features ordinary men and women who have immigrated to New York City in their work environments. Pinzón’s subjects wear superhero attire in order to raise questions surrounding the definition of heroism after 9/11. Her series brings to light the presence of immigrants in the workforce and the importance they hold. Pinzón has been awarded the Mexican Jóvenes Creadores (2002) and first prize at the 12th Photography Biennial of the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City (2006), and was a fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts (2006). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Vice, the Guardian, and the Washington Post. Wayne Lawrence

Wayne Lawrence (b. 1974, St. Kitts) is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on unrecognized communities including the Bronx, Grenada, and Detroit. His portraits of individuals are captured through an intimate lens that creates a sense of honesty about these peoples’ lives. His success comes from taking simple portraits that have a strong presence. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. He has been the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture (2013) and the International Photography Awards People Photographer of the Year (2012). Lesson 9 CONTENT: Collaborative Portraiture

Richard Renaldi

Richard Renaldi (b. 1968, Chicago) uses photography in order to explore human relationships and identity. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2006 Renaldi’s first monograph, Figure and Ground, was published by Aperture Foundation. His second monograph, Fall River Boys, was released in 2009 by Charles Lane Press. Renaldi’s most recent monograph, Manhattan Sunday, was released by Aperture in the fall of 2016. In 2015 Renaldi was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. He received his BFA in photography from New York University. Jamel Shabazz

Jamel Shabazz (b. 1960, Brooklyn) uses photography as a tool to document various aspects of life in New York City, from youth culture to a range of social conditions. His most celebrated work, Back in the Days, features photographs taken in the 1980s, at a time when the streets set the standards for style. Shabazz is successful in capturing the true essence of local New Yorkers, using both the streets and the subway as backdrops. He has had over two dozen solo exhibitions and is the author of five monographs. In addition, Shabazz works with a wide range of organizations centered on inspiring young people in the field of photography and social responsibility.