Robin Dahlberg is a visual artist and arts educator based in New York City. She worked for more than two decades as an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, focusing on criminal justice reform. After she left the ACLU, she turned to photography. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Stanford University, a J.D. from New York University School of Law and an M.F.A. from the University of Hartford.
In 2018 she co-founded the non-profit Five Corners Collective, which teaches photography to underserved and geographically isolated communities. In 2022 she held a residency at MoMA PS1 in Queens.
Her book Breaking Point was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2026. It brings together 75 tritone portraits and testimonies from six exonerees who were wrongfully convicted after false confessions. The text is by Sara C. Appleby and Dahlberg. The project won at the Belfast Photo Festival in 2026. Her earlier book is Billable Hours in 6-Minute Increments (self-published, 2016; Daylight Books, 2021).
