Photo by Jaxon Dobbins.
Peyton Robinson is a Chicago-based photographer and writer. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, she honed both her photographic and prose skills, of which she has had a long held passion.
Her interest in film began when her older brother showed her “A Nightmare on Elm Street” when she was far too young. Though her mother, a horror fan herself, nurtured this interest by taking her to the theater for more. As she got older, this interest evolved into various genres and styles.
Peyton is a staff writer for RogerEbert.com and Cinema Femme. She is a yearly programmer for the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, hosted by Chicago’s iconic Music Box Theatre. She also has bylines with Jumpcut Online and Film School Rejects. With the latter, she had a column, Carnage Classified, where she investigated different franchises and subgenres in the horror sphere.
After picking up a camera to photograph her friends’ band in high school, Peyton’s interest branched off into fashion and portrait territory. Her photographic clients include Select Model Management, 10mgmt, Stewart Talent, Neiman Marcus, and Timeline Theatre. In her work, she is known for creative styling choices, dynamic framing, her personal engagement with subjects, and natural editing.
Her creative approach—no matter the medium or form—is to investigate the feeling behind a story. Latching onto this pathos is what sets her work apart.