Robin Dru Germany

Professor in Photography, Texas Tech University

Robin.d.germany@ttu.edu | www.robingermany.com

Robin Dru Germany, BA (Philosophy-Tulane), MFA (Fine Art-University of North Texas) is a Professor of Photography in the School of Art. Her research investigates the tenuous border between the land and the water, looking simultaneously at the sunlit human world above and the undisclosed darkness beneath the water. Through the use of underwater photographic cameras and lighting, her images point to the asynchrony between these two environments. Germany has exhibited her research at the Fort Wayne Art Museum; the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, at the New York Hall of Science; in Arezzo Italy at the Fotografia Festival, the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie Texas and in galleries and museums around the country. She has received a regional NEA grant, two Polaroid artist's awards, several Texas Tech University research grants, and her photographs can be seen in the Collections of the Center for Photography Woodstock, Texas Tech Museum of Art, The Boise Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona as well as numerous private collections.

In her teaching at Texas Tech, she strives to support all students in making honest artwork that reflects their individual world views. She actively guides students to realize their innate skills and abilities and works to broaden their scope of understanding about photographic seeing. She has served on regional and national boards for the Society for Photographic Education and the Texas Photographic Society and continues to provide support for the student-run Tech Photo Club. Germany has served her school as associate director for the past six years, and as interim director for the past year and a half.