About – Robin Black Photography

I’m a California nature and conservation photographer and spend most of my time photographing the Sierra Nevada, California Coast, and desert Southwest. My current gear includes Nikon cameras, Nikkor and Sigma lenses, and Singh-Ray filters. My work has been used on corporate websites and exhibited in galleries around the United States including the museum gallery in Yosemite National Park, the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle, Washington, the New York Center for Photographic Art, and the G2 Gallery in Venice, California. My work has been published in Outdoor Photographer magazine, Smithsonian magazine (digital version), Sunset, Tasting Panel, and Yosemite Conservancy magazine.

All of my images are copyrighted, all rights reserved, and may not be used or linked without permission. If you’d like to use any of the photos for licensing or publication, please use this contact form. I am also available for contract landscape or corporate photography assignments, as well as private photography workshops.

Please check out my documentary project on the Owens Lake and my wine blog, wine-stained lens. You can also follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Awards, Exhibitions & Published Work:

2018 Solo Photography Exhibit at Switchback Showcase: SoCal Edition
2017 Designed Environment at G2 Gallery in Venice, California (2 images included in juried exhibition)
2017 Black and White at the New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, New York (one image selected)
2016 “Six Monumental New Outdoor Art Installations to See This Summer,” Smithsonian magazine (featuring an image from Owens Lake Project)
2016 Life on the Lake (Owens Lake Project) year-long exhibition at the Eastern California Museum in Independence, California (images added to museum’s permanent collection)
2015 Presentation to Disney Imagineers Camera Club: “Nature Photography Basics: How to Find Your Own Way in a World of ‘Like’ Junkies and Comp-Stompers”
2015 Rural Impressions at the New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, New York (inclusion in juried exhibition, 2nd Place award)
2015 Yosemite: Off the Beaten Path at G2 Gallery in Venice, California (2 images included in restrospective exhibition on Yosemite National Park)
Moderator, Panel: “Filmmaking as a Tool for Conservation,” G2 Gallery’s Green Earth Film Festival, October 2015
2015 Outdoor Photographer Magazine – “Precipice and Fog” as Showcase Image, August 2015
2015 Saturdays Off the 405 – inclusion in digital exhibition at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
2015 Highly Commended for Snowy Bridalveil Sunrise, USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition
2015 Second Chance: The Owens Lake Project at the Eastern Sierra Interagency Visitors’ Center in Lone Pine, California
Moderator, “Water Panel: Urgent Conservation Notice – Where our water comes from, how much we have left, and what we can do to conserve it,” G2 Gallery’s Green Earth Film Festival, October 2014
2014 Landscapes: The Big Country at 1650Gallery in Los Angeles, California (two images selected for juried exhibition)
2014 Second Chance: The Owens Lake Project at G2 Gallery in Venice, California (solo conservation photography exhibit, with partner Audubon California, June/July 2014)
2014 Outdoor Photographer Magazine – Interview (along with eight other pro photographers) in “It’s More Than The Camera” feature (May 2014)
2014 Yosemite Renaissance XXIX juried exhibition – selected for inclusion in exhibition in the Yosemite National Park Museum and subsequent touring exhibition (received Honorable Mention for “Winter’s Bones” image)
2013 One of two photographers featured in the annual Emerging (VI) exhibit at G2 Gallery in Venice, California (13 images included)
2013 Yosemite Conservancy Magazine – published in feature on fall color in Yosemite National Park
2013 Outdoor Photographer Magazine – published as part of annual feature on National Parks
2012 Spirit of the Mountains (National Park Service) – First Place, (Scenic) Landscape; Exhibition at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area’s King Gillette Ranch
2012 Denver Audubon Photography Competition – Honorable Mention
2012 International Conservation Photography Awards by Art Wolfe – First Place, Landscape; Exhibition at the Burke Museum of Natural History (Seattle) and subsequent touring exhibition
2011 Denver Audubon Photography Competition – Honorable Mention
2011 Yosemite Renaissance XXVI juried exhibition – Two pieces selected for inclusion in exhibition in the Yosemite National Park Museum and subsequent touring exhibition