Richard Sharum is an editorial and documentary photographer based in upstate New York. His work focuses on socio-economic and social justice issues.
In 2015 and 2016, he started the Observe Dallas Project. Eight large photographs were shown on five buildings in downtown Dallas.
His first major book, Campesino Cuba, was published by GOST Books in September 2021. It shows isolated farmers in Cuba and their communities. Sharum made it on several trips between 2016 and 2019.
His book Spina Americana was published by GOST Books in November 2024. For this book, he spent close to three years traveling through the central United States. The route follows a corridor about 100 miles wide through the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. It is the first book in a series called Of Thee I Sing.
His work has been shown in Kyoto, São Paulo, Reggio Emilia, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Dallas. His photographs are in the permanent collection of The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University. He has been published in LFI, British Journal of Photography, The Atlantic and Texas Monthly. He is represented by The Hulett Collection in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
