“Exotic locations stimulate my creative juices. Being a veterinarian, I have a natural proclivity for photographing wildlife and nature, but love for photographing people has led me to focus also on portraying differences and similarities among individuals from diverse cultures, showing them within their environments. To me, the human face and form are the most striking subject matter. The faces of aged people usually are the most interesting. But children’s faces sometimes are especially expressive of joy and love of life, and at other times of suffering, desperation and the struggle to overcome them.”

Tony Schwartz was born and raised in New York City, but has lived in the Boston area for 30 years. He has created sculpture, drawing, and painting during a lifetime of involvement in the visual arts, but his great love since 2003 has been digital photography. Before devoting himself fully to photography, Schwartz was an academic veterinary surgeon, immunologist and administrator. He has been on the faculties of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Yale Medical School, and, most recently, the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, in North Grafton, MA. There, he served as Chair of the Surgery Department and Associate Dean, before retiring as Professor Emeritus. Schwartz has studied photographic and printing theory and technique at Cone Editions, E. Topsham, VT, and with Randall Armour, Heratch Ekmekjian and Dana Smith at the New England School of Photography, Boston, also on location with Rosanne Pennella, Tanzania, Ron Rosenstock, Morocco, and Karin Rosenthal, ME. He has exhibited in solo and group shows, including the Photographic Society of America International Exhibition of Photography, Portland OR, The Greater Lynn International Color Exhibition, Lynn, MA and the Southern Vermont Arts Center.

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