Phoenix Robles (b) 1984, is a Brooklyn-based fine art photographer and photo-documentarian. Primarily utilizing a hybrid method within her photography, Often combing written narratives in an essay or free verse form format addressing topics that are traditionally taboo narratives. Her images seek to examine the socio-cultural importance of these narratives.
Her self-portrait documentary series Black Girl with the Blues (2017), utilizes the first-person perspective to begin to capture the active detriment of domestic violence & depression on mental health. Within her street photography, she often seeks to capture the hidden parts of communities that are often silenced. Pairing her images with free-verse prose or essays, her work seeks to create insightful and introspective moments between image and viewer.
"Those are the special moments in photography- when empathy and a connection are created between the viewer and subject of different demographics and ideals through excellent visual storytelling. I love that about photography."-Phoenix Robles
ARTIST CV
MEMBERSHIPS
Contributing Photographer-STOOP STORIES COLLECTIVE
PROJECTS
2021 | B-Sides of a Revolution: Insides Views from the George Floyd Protests | Photo-Documentary (Current)
2019 | Ex|Posed Self Portrait Series | Self Portrait Project
2017 | Black Girl with the Blues: a look at mental health | Self Portrait Project
2016 | Woman | Photobook project under the instruction of Professor Nick Kline for Rutgers University Newark
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Well Behaved Group Exhibition -Culture Lab, LIC, New York
2022 See Black Women Group Exhibition -Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Art Walk Atlantic Ave. -Art Gowanus, BROOKLYN, NY (Stoop Stories Collective)
2022 If Fluid Was a Song -Project Gallery V, Digital Exhibition
2021 FUTURE IS FEMALE -SK ARTSPACE, BROOKLYN, NY
2021 INSIDE/OUT Group -BLACK GOTHAM GALLERIES/SEAPORT, NEW YORK,NY
2017 CONCEPTUAL Group Exhibition -LOOSEN ART GALLERY, DIGITAL EXHIBITION
TEACHING
2022, YWCA, Photography Instructor
2021, Photography and Activism- Guest Instructor, BRAC (Bronx River Arts Center)
2016, Peer Instructor, Taller De Fotoperidismo
ARTICLES
2021, Joel Rivera founder of The Stonewall Protests, Stoop Stories
2019, Public Nudity, Black and Black Magazine
2018, Street Photography Issue, FStop Magazine
2017, Eye Candy, AfroPunk.com
2017 Street Style I , ChicPeaJC Blog
2017 Street Style II, ChicPeaJC Blog