Linda Foard Roberts is a photographer who lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her work is rooted in memory, family and local history. She works with 8×10 and 5×7 cameras and prefers old lenses with their imperfections.
She has published two books with Radius Books: Passage (2016) and Lament (2025). Lament is a two-volume book about places in the American South tied to the history of slavery. She began it in 2016, after learning in a church that she was sitting where enslaved people once sat. The book includes texts by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cheryl Finley, Michelle Lanier and Jennifer Sudul Edwards.
In 2020 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. Her work is held in museum collections, including the Mint Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
