Tony Schwartz grew up in New York City, and resides in Boston, MA and Peru, VT, USA. He has done visual arts since childhood, including drawing, oil painting and clay sculpture. Before devoting himself fully to photography, he was an academic veterinary surgeon and immunologist. Tony’s photographic education was at the New England School of Photography in Boston, at Cone Editions in Vermont, and while participating in photo workshops with Karin Rosenthal, and in travel workshops in Tanzania, Morocco and Mexico. He has received many awards for his work, including two from Santa Fe Workshop competitions, and. Internationally, he has been a Charles Dodson Gala Award finalist. He has had solo exhibitions at the Copley Society of Art in Boston, where he is a juried member and “Copley Artist,” at the Griffin Museum of Photography, in Winchester, MA, and at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. His work has been in many juried regional, national and international exhibitions, and in the permanent collections of the Langham Hotel in Boston, MA, and the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, in North Grafton, MA. His work is represented by the 3 Pears Gallery in Dorset, VT