Robin Resch is a visual artist based in Princeton, NJ, known for her natural portraiture and fine-art photography.  She holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University (2003), where she also studied photography with Emmet Gowin. Her architectural training informs her documentary photographic work as she is particularly interested in making images that are about people and their personal environments as well as the impact of people on our collective environments.  Her landscape photography, which is more emotive, seeks to explore our human experience of the natural environment. Her work has been exhibited at Princeton University’s Lucas Gallery, the Arts Council of Princeton, the Nassau Club and Design Within Reach, and published in The New York Times,  WWD,  GQ Italia,  Princeton Alumni Weekly and Princeton Magazine.

Resch’s photographs are held in private collections across the United States and Europe.  She has maintained a Princeton-based studio since 2003 and her career highlights include serving as the exclusive campaign photographer for First Lady Michelle Obama (2012), Artist in Residence with the Arts Council of Princeton and Princeton University’s Humanities Council (2020–21), and commissioned cover artist for Princeton University Reunions (2023).  Most recently, her two-person exhibition Being Present, was shown at the Arts Council of Princeton in May 2025.

Artist statement

In my landscape photography I explore the power of nature and the duality of its ephemerality and continuum.  This work is created in moments of reflection, stillness and contemplation. My intention is to evoke the emotive experience of being in a certain place and the landscape as we pass through it — an analogy to the fleeting nature of life and the vulnerability of our planet.  I am less concerned with realistic representation than I am conveying emotion.  Something that I experience in a certain time and place that I feel is worth sharing.