Blue Hill Library features work by photojournalist Robin Bowman
Work focuses on time spent in East Africa
April 28, 2026
By staff
A young Hadzabe hunter with his catch of the morning- a Guinea fowl, near Lake Eyasi, Tanzania. Photo courtesy of Robin Bowman.
BLUE HILLThe Blue Hill Public Library will present “Sitting in the Mud: A Yearlong Walkabout in East Africa,” by award-winning freelance photojournalist and author Robin Bowman. According to a release, the exhibition features large individual images and floor to ceiling photomontage panels on display at the library from May 4 through May 30.
A reception will be held at the library on May 8 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
Bowman is an award-winning, internationally known photojournalist and author, the release said. She is known for “documenting the plight of humans in crisis all over the world,” and her work has appeared in major publications, including The New Yorker, Life, People, Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Her photographs appear in many collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the release said, and she is the author “It’s Complicated: The American Teenager.”
Bowman has also traveled extensively in East Africa.
“I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru; went on many safaris, including into the Serengeti; returned to Rwanda to reunite with friends whom I met and photographed years ago after the genocide; spent weeks on the island of Zanzibar documenting life in a small, mostly Muslim fishing village,” she said in the release.
“I lived in the bush with the Maasai and experienced life in a boma; traveled to Kenya several times and photographed life on the streets in Nairobi; set up a home in Arusha, Tanzania, adopted a dog, studied Kiswahili, volunteered at an orphanage, and lived life.”
The exhibition will be available for viewing during library hours through May 30, the release said, and prints of images will be for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the library.
For more information contact, please contact the library at 374-5515.
