The Romano Collection
For twenty-five years, I worked in partnership with Robin Romano (1956-2014). We were family. He was my incorrigible, dementedly funny and passionately committed partner in recording the worst forms of child labor, forced labor and human slavery in all its forms. I wanted his legacy to do more than sit in file drawers and so in 2015, I donated the entire collection to The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
The collection consists of all of the photographic materials for films we made together and apart. It includes all of the photos and outtakes from The Harvest, Stolen Childhoods and all of the photos Robin took for NGOs he worked with for years: GoodWeave, Free the Slaves, AFOP, The Child Labor Coalition. There are over 300,000 still images in the Romano Collection alone.
The entire collection is accessible to students, researchers and advocates for children both onsite and streaming.
In 2014, all of the photos in the Department of Labor’s annual List of Goods Produced with Child and Forced Labor were drawn from the archive in tribute to Robin’s many years of work on behalf of children around the world.
Robin Romano’s luminous images of children can be accessed at the Dodd Center for Human Rights - University of Connecticut.