Bio

About the Photographer

Roberta Fineberg is an award-winning photographer, author, and teaching artist. Based in Paris and New York during her career, Roberta's photography is exhibited in France, the US, and Russia, and is in private and public collections, such as the Bibliotheque Nationale and Bibliotheque Marguerite Durand, both in France. In New York in 2002, she received an original work grant from the Dept. Of Cultural Affairs. The following year Print's Regional Design Annual awarded Ms. Fineberg for book jacket photography.

Beginning her career with publication in the Saturday Review followed by Le Monde, Paris Match, L'officiel Femme, Ms., Weltwoche, la Vanguardia, among other magazines, she moved on to catalog covers and book jacket photography for W.W. Norton, St. Martin's Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, and Simon & Schuster. Along the way, Macmillan published her first book, City Riders, with photos and text on girls and horses. Ms. Fineberg's editorial and commercial work appear regularly today in analog and digital media.

In May 2012, Ms. Fineberg teaches a class, Island Hopping, based on photo safaris, for Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2011, Roberta launched NYC 'Spark Your Creativity' Photo Safari & Workshop. As teaching artist, Fineberg offers an innovative approach to storytelling through her Images & Words workshops: she has led groups in Literacy through Photography (LTP), ESL through Photography, Biography of a Town (documentary photography), Autobiography through Photography and Shot After Dark: Photography at Night (92Y/Tribeca).