Robert Virga is a photographer residing in the New York City metropolitan area. Working with film and the traditional darkroom, his street photography portrays a social landscape of extremes, capturing reality at it’s most expressive. Richly emotional, lyrical and untainted by interference or staged detail. A tableaux of relationships, the human condition, life and death. Reminding us of how large a fraction of what we see won’t exist in it’s present form only a moment from now.

His work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Italy and Spain. In addition, he has been published and reviewed in, among others, Black and White Magazine, Photography Gala Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Urban Photo Awards and winner of the 14th Pollux Street Photography Award.

Selected Exhibitions and Publications

2024 Foto Nostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain 8th Biennale Exhibition

2023 Gallery 4, Phoenix Historical Museum, Group Exhibition Resistance

2023 Photo Review International Competition Winner Harlem Baptism

2022 Photography Gala Awards Documentary and Reportage The Rural Life

2022 Ryan Gallery Gilbert, Arizona Group Exhibition Picturing Resistance

2022 Bowers Museum Santa Ana, California Exhibition Aging as Art

2022 PhotoPlace Gallery Middlebury, Vermont Exhibition Rites and Rituals

2021 Analog Magazine October Group Exhibit Where Do We Go From Here

2021 Street Photography Magazine October A Humanist Landscape: Video Conversation

2021 All About Photo Solo Exhibition In the Street: An Expression of Faith

2021 Black and White Magazine Multi-Page Feature Essay

2021 All About Photo Magazine, Winner Streets

2020 Urban Photo Awards Portfolio Selection A Humanist Landscape

2020 Gallerie Forst, Trieste, Italy Exhibition In the Street

2019 FotoNostrum Gallery Barcelona, Spain, Street Photography Group Exhibition

2019 Photography Gala Awards 14th Pollux Street Photography Series Winner

2018 Umbrella Arts Gallery New York, NY Solo Exhibition The Sacred and Profane

2018 Photography Gala Awards 13th Pollux Street Photography Honorable Mention

2017 Darkroom Gallery Essex, VT Group Exhibit Streetwise

2016 Black and White Magazine Portfolio Award Country Fairs

2010 Soho Photo Gallery New York, NY Solo Exhibition In the Street: A Humanist Landscape

2010 Black and White Magazine Single Image Silver Award Documentary

2008 Ridgefield Art Gallery Ridgefield CT Group Exhibit

2007 Soho Photo Gallery New York, NY Solo Exhibition Images Without Time

2006 Stone Gallery New York, NY Group Exhibit