Artist Bio

Orville Robertson has been a street photographer for over thirty years. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States and is represented in many major museum, private, and corporate collections. He is the publisher and editor of Fotophile, the photography journal he founded in 1993. He is the co-curator of Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001, highlighting one hundred living black photographers. In 2004 his group show Man-ifestations: Photographs of Men, co-curated with Kay Kenny, was exhibited at The Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was also awarded a 2002 Fellowship in Photography by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Orville Robertson lives in Queens, New York City with his wonderful wife and walking companion Patricia, whose amazing eye has helped him capture many of his best photographs.

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