Interiors

Robitaille’s pictures are primarily documents of intimacy. In each photograph, they try to find a balance between some kind of emotional vastness and formal beauty or simplicity. Much of the motivation for Robitaille’s portraits comes from an earnest curiosity about other people, particularly their friends. Robitaille is curious about their faces, their bodies, their rooms, and most markedly their internal condition. The act of photographing people in their spaces can serve as a means to flatly satisfy their curiosity, but more than that they make pictures to get closer to people.

Keith Haley Robitaille is a visual artist who splits their time between Cambridge, Mass. and Queens, N.Y. In 2020, they received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Their work has been shown in group exhibitions in Boston and New York City. Most recently, they were shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize in the U.K.