Walkovic & Schumacher Memorial Lecture: The Art of Garden Photography

Join professional garden photographer Rob Cardillo as he illustrates how he crafts sweeping landscapes and compelling plant closeups through a series of engaging stories.

Using examples from his many books and magazine projects (including his most recent work, Private Gardens of Philadelphia), Rob will show how he doesn’t always get it right the first time and how perseverance and patience pay off in the end.

You’ll leave with new ideas and new techniques to help you find and translate your own vision of Eden, even if you only use a smartphone.

Co-sponsored with the Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group. Virtual and in-person options available.

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Program Details

• All registrations include access to the recording. 
• In-person registration is limited to 190. Due to limited seating, virtual participants cannot attend in person. 
• Virtual registrants will be able to view the recording shortly after the presentation concludes and can ask the speaker questions by emailing scott@swarthmore.edu in advance.
• Registration is free, but required to receive the presentation recording link.
• Email us if you have accessibility needs for this program.
• For more information, review our program and event policies or call the Scott office at 610-328-8025. 

About the Presenter

Rob Cardillo has been photographing gardens, plants and the people who love them for nearly thirty years. He’s been credited as the primary photographer for over twenty-five books including Private Edens and Private Gardens of South Florida and The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer, The Layered Garden, Chasing Eden and his most recent work Private Gardens of Philadelphia. Rob’s work is also seen in publications such as Gardens Illustrated, Garden Gate, Flower and The New York Times. Along with his Blue Root Media partners, Rob provides editorial content for an award-winning regional gardening magazine, GROW, published quarterly by the venerable Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.  Winner of numerous photography awards, Rob was inducted into the Garden Writer’s Association Hall of Fame in 2015. 

Rob lives and gardens in Ambler where he grows a little bit of everything in drifts of one.