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About Orville Robertson

 

Almanac Gallery of Photography
1252 Garden Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Tel: 201 865-6997
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Gallery is open by appointment: Telephone 201-865-6997 or email us at
ben@hobokenalmanac.com

Transportation:

BUSES from NYC’s Port Authority bus terminal to Hoboken. Ask driver to get off at 14th and Garden streets. Walk 1 block to 13th and Garden – second house from corner.

PATH TRAINS to Hoboken. Taxi to Gallery or WASHINGTO ST. bus to 13th St.

Walk West two blocks to Garden St.

By CAR:

Through Lincoln Tunnel to Hoboken. Turn left to 14th St. then right to Garden St.
However, parking in Hoboken is worse than Manhattan.

We hope to see you at the gallery.

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About the Artist

Orville Robertson has been photographing urban landscapes and people for nearly twenty-five 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, now celebrating its tenth year of publication. 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, and was featured in the Smithsonian exhibition and book entitled, “Reflecting Black: A History of Black Photographers1840 – 1999.” He was recently a reviewer at PhotoAmericas 2003. His work was featured last year at the Leica Gallery in the group show “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning”, curated by 2002 MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis and Lisa Henry. In 2004 his group show “Man-ifestations: Photographs of Men”, co-curated with Kay Kenny, will be 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. His work from the series “Markings: New York City’s Billboards, Posters, Signs, and Graffiti”, will be shown at Ben Fernandez’s Hoboken Almanac Gallery in February 2004.

Robertson's exhibitions include the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Brooklyn Museum, 4th Street Photo Gallery, The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, Mary Anthony Galleries, and the Museum of the City of New York, all in New York; the Anacostia Museum/Smithsonian Institution and Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC; Amon Carter Museum, TX; Gallery Mistral, Canada; Narodni Muzeum, Czech Republic; and many others. He loves being a photographer.