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My work is influenced by my career in environmental policy and much of my life spent living in cities - Washington, London, Boston, Pune (India), and then back to DC. Given this background, I think about things like how for the first time in history, most of the world's population lives in cities, with urban areas growing by 50+ million people annually (Source: World Health Organization) - and implications this has for the natural environment and how we experience it. More and more people are encountering nature from a very human-constructed landscape. So with my camera I explore how the natural and built environments coexist.
As a city-dweller, I also love to see how people express their individuality in a concrete, glass, steel, and brick world. I explore the role that color holds in human expression in urban life. This obsession with color led to my "DC by Color" project, to which I add every chance I get. Many of these images are on this website; I also regularly post even more of them, one color at a time, on Instagram @rinamrodriguez, and am pursuing publishing the images as a book. I'm also expanding this project to other cities.
(As much as I love urban locations, I also like to get away with my husband to pretty fabulous places with mountains, rocks, and bare land. That's why I'm there in the Isle of Skye, photographing of course, while on my honeymoon a few years ago with my great hubby.)
Artist CV
Relevant Education
- 2012 Certificate in Digital Photography, Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts (Washington, DC campus)
- 2006-7 Smithsonian Associates courses: Intro to Black and White Photography; Continuing Black and White Photography classes
- 2001 Masters of Science in Environment and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Group Exhibitions
- 2018 Green * Verde * Vert, national juried show, Women's Caucus for Art, Colorado Chapter, Core New Art Space, Colorado
- 2016 Water Ecologies, national juried show, Transition Gallery, Idaho State University, Idaho
- 2016 Local juried show, Hole in the Sky Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2015 Red, national juried show, Gallery Underground, Crystal City, Virginia
Artist Grants
- 2017 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- 2016 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Website and Print Publications/Use: My images have been used in print and/or web form by the following organizations and firms:
- The Nature Conservancy
- GW Medical Faculty Associates/Comprehensive Breast Care Center
- Lend for America
- Monumental Sports and Entertainment/Verizon Center
- Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice, Italy
- Watershed Organization Trust, India
- World Resources Institute
- Evelyn Pierce Design