I have received a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, a Visual Artists Fellowship from Art Matters, Inc., the Ruttenberg Fellowship from the Friends of Photography, the Photographer's Work Grant from the Maine Photographic Workshops, and the James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. My work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Library of Congress and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I have been teaching photography at colleges and universities in the Bay Area since 1980, and have given many workshops and lectures throughout the country. I have been an Instructor of Photography at San Jose State University since 1986 and an Instructor of Photography at Stanford University since 1996. All images on this site are copyrighted and may only be used with the written permission of Robert Dawson.
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