Robin Schwartz’s photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with his daughter, Amelia. He is driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary.
Animals and interspecies relationships have always been an important part of his work. Animals in his photographs are not represented as beastly or noble, or as props to illustrate human life but as part of his everyday world.
His daughter and Robin Schwartz share an affinity with the animal kingdom and they play out our fantasies and explore our eccentricities by creating a cultural space where animals not only co-exist with humans, but also interact as full partners. The animals in the photographs are living creatures, participants in the dramas that the photographs capture. The world that his daughter and he explore is one where the line between human and animal overlaps or is blurred, where animals are part of their world and humans are part of theirs.
