Susan Richman is a contemporary American photographer. Originally from rural Pennsylvania, her work explores the link between existence, decay, and loss by photographing images that capture and preserve the fleeting nature of our world.

She interprets the world around her by creating fantasy images that concentrate on the damage to our environment. And through her work she honors her subjects whose troubling decline makes their recognition important and poignant.

Richman received an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a degree from Art Center College of Design. After graduation she worked as a commercial photographer in Manhattan before pursuing a career as an artist. Prior to Covid, Richman worked as an educator at the International Center of Photography. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally in France, Italy, England, and Spain and is held in numerous private collections that include Montefiore Hospital and The Wallace Hotel Group. Recent US exhibitions include Neighboring Vision: Westchester Artists Then and Now, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, and Susan Richman- Environmental Memento Mori, The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie NY, Bloom, dkGallery, Marietta GA., Studies in Still Life, Soho Photo Gallery NYC, NY, (Un)Natural Cycles): Air Water and Land, Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins, CO., and Metamorphosis, Silvermine Galleries.

American, born. 1959 Washington, PA, based in Hastings on Hudson, NY

In addition to Upstream Gallery in New York, she is also represented by dk Gallery in Marietta Georgia, Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan Connecticut and Contemporary Art Projects USA in Miami Florida