| Robin Vincent first picked up a camera
as a child, which came as no surprise since Robin's father
is award-winning photojournalist James Galbraith. Yet Robin
didn't begin snapping in earnest until her early twenties
when she was inspired by the curious and provocative world
of the silent film.
Immediately Robin was drawn to the textures,
agitation and grandiosity of the circus. Her tender exploration
of this world was the backbone of her first collection completed
in 1990. This fascination with the unordinary led her to
the world of self-created fancy. Working largely in black
and white, Robin devises portraits that are as intimate
and probing as they are odd and oddly humorous. But there
is a palpable veneer of pain that transforms the recognizable
into something haunting.
In addition to being a photographer, Robin
is also a painter. Preferring to paint in the winter months,
Robin often uses black and white photographs as her template,
rendering them as darkly colorful underworlds. Her paintings
have appeared in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
and are part of several private art collections.
Robin lives in Ann Arbor with her
husband, two young daughters and overly large dog. In her
spare time, which she expects will begin when her kids are
in college, Robin likes to ride her bike as far as she can
go and still find her way back home again.
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