Robert Radin (1923-2013) was born in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. After serving in World War II, his family moved to Los Angeles where Radin ventured several international trading enterprises, and in the 1950’s he was instrumental in establishing post-war garlic farming in the city of Hokkaido in northern Japan, which became the foundation for a viable domestic garlic industry in Japan.

Radin devoted increasingly more time to world travel and production photography for eco-documentary films and television in the years following his first mountain trek to the high Himalayas in 1978 with filmmaker Michael Tobias. Over the next thirty years, he documented dozens of cultures on nearly every continent, traveling with his camera to places where cameramen had little to no access.

Radin’s vision and photographic passion are well illustrated by an incident filming while he was in his late 70’s. When the driver of a truck which was illegally transporting cattle in India spotted Radin on the back taking photos he took off, swerving on a steep mountainside while Radin held on for dear life, one hand clinging to the truck, the other to his camera!

Radin allowed intuition to choose the moments to document with his Nikon F. He rarely used a zoom lens and referred to the process of taking photos as “a millisecond of magic.” He thought often of life beyond limits and how this Earth and humanity, so rich and so varied, are held together by an astounding commonality.

The Robert Radin Photography collection spans four decades and includes images from Egypt, Israel, Greece, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, China, New Zealand, Antarctica, Ireland, Italy, France, Scotland, England, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and El Salvador, Belize, Mali, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Canada, and various parts of the United States. His traveling exhibition, A Beautiful World, contains nearly 100 prints from six continents.

Radin’s work is that of a keen-eyed street photographer successful at capturing impromptu portraits of people at work, children, animals, structures, and landscapes which have been internationally exhibited, collected, and published. His collected work, "A Beautiful World" (2018), includes his reflections on each photograph and offers a compassionate look at the world and the those who live in it.