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PhotosbyRoberta Travel, community, design, people, colors and contrast. My vision of the world can be expressed in p

My vision of the world can be expressed in pictures... always a work in progress

This was a quite complicated shoot as we combined constant light and flash studio light with subject movement. It took a...
27/05/2022

This was a quite complicated shoot as we combined constant light and flash studio light with subject movement. It took a couple of trial and error to get to this results and a lot of posing by Jose Gomez to look believable 🤣🤣
This was my favourite shoot of my studio experience during my third year of Bachelor. Considering we sneaked in this shoot between lockdowns, I am very impressed with the results!
Thanks to 📸 .caitlyn for all support and help during very tough times🙂
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Can you make night happen in a photo studio? Surely you can! We used 2 studio lights and a reflector. It took us 120 pho...
27/05/2022

Can you make night happen in a photo studio? Surely you can! We used 2 studio lights and a reflector. It took us 120 photos to get there! It was hard work even if doesn’t seem like it🤦🏻‍♀️
We are very excited to have completed the Bachelor . So proud of some of my fellow schoolmates who continued to their Honour degree while I am travelling around the world! Thanks to always find very good ideas and keep us on our toes🙋🏻‍♀️
You can see inspiration photo and light diagram if you keep swiping!
Thanks .caitlyn and Jose Gomez for the help and support📸📸
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She doesn’t look too happy! Playing with morning light in the RMIT Photographic studio can be fun and it took us about 7...
27/05/2022

She doesn’t look too happy! Playing with morning light in the RMIT Photographic studio can be fun and it took us about 70 photos to get to this one!
If you are interested you can see the light diagram! Thanks to for keeping us inspired and to .caitlyn and Jose Gomez for helping and modelling📸📸📸
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15/03/2022

Emerging Artists Collective’s theme for our gallery exhibition is “Room to Grow”.

"The process of developing physically, mentally, or spiritually”

EAC’s aim is to support emerging artists to grow their artistic practice. We want to help celebrate and support up-and-coming artists from many different artistic mediums.

Our gallery exhibition will advertise each of our artists, their artwork, and hopefully lead to selling their work in our month long showcase.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get your artwork out into the world, meet other creatives just like you, and add some experience to your resume. ✨✨✨

Head to the link in our bio to learn more about EAC, our exhibition and how to apply 🤩

Entrepreneur and speaker Veronica Benini says: “Italian women feel ugly and fat compared to the beauty standard that TV ...
23/08/2021

Entrepreneur and speaker Veronica Benini says: “Italian women feel ugly and fat compared to the beauty standard that TV and the media promote”. The standard Benini refers to, was originally set by Italian vallette, our own version of
“showgirls”. A product of the TV networks owned by Berlusconi since the ’80s,
they’re made to perform basic dance routines and have a supporting role to
the anchor or conductor of a TV program while wearing skimpy costumes, treading the mostly nonexistent line between irony and debasement. Their beauty is supposed to convey both “girl-next-door” and “bombshell” charm. Because of this, casting directors choose tall, slender women with medium to large breasts and narrow hips—my guess is that they are toying with innocence versus eroticism.

A reasonable representation of the multidimensionality that embodies real life is wanted in commercials, women wants to see real “normal” bodies.
The so-called “femvertising“, that is, implementing plans for equality and reality in order to overcome clichés and stereotypes.

After decades of humiliating representations for women, flooded by advertising and media, companies have begun to propose female models that are no longer univocal and stereotyped.
This does not mean that these images have been completely eradicated, but that especially in recent years, there are also companies and brands that tend to create advertising to overcome stereotypes and to get closer to gender equality.

Body positivity, the inclusion of different aesthetic canons in advertising, is a
declination of femvertising, for example.
Many companies made in Italy, are now showing more openness, really supporting women, such as
(sportwear), (water bottle producer) and who, for the first
time in 2020, started to involve plus-size models in the Milan Fashion Week.
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The genesis of “The Forgotten” (2020) started with my daily walk observation during Covid-19 pandemic. The house I pictu...
04/06/2021

The genesis of “The Forgotten” (2020) started with my daily walk observation during Covid-19 pandemic. The house I pictured, it’s from the end of 1800s and it looks abandoned and neglected, what’s the story behind it?
My work investigates the history of the house, appreciating its beauty but also interrogating and contesting the disregard given to Australia’s cultural history.
Situated in Fitzroy North, My friend .r.c used to live
close by it. She said The house has been run down and vacant for most of the
last 50 years or so.
The house is heritage listed
and that it was bought and remained unoccupied for 40 years. The only way to
demolish a heritage listed property, is to get it condemned. The electricity is on and one of the windows is open. Probably squatters
are occupying the house. The house is of local historical and architectural significance. It is an interesting example of large Italianate house, with unusual detailing, including the tower, and the balustraded balcony above the polygonal bay window. The house also derives significance from its associations with Joseph Gamble, founder of the Excelsior Steam Crushing and Pavement Works, and later with the Austral/ Moonee Valley Glass Bottle Works, established in early 1897 by John Donne. This was his house.
In July 1980 this home was sold for $84,900. Its block size is 512 square metres.
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Growing up in Italy, I was surrounded by its rich historical architecture, which spans almost 3,500 years. In my photogr...
04/06/2021

Growing up in Italy, I was surrounded by its rich historical architecture, which spans almost 3,500 years. In my photography practice I always have been attracted by the passing of time in relationship with the culture of a place, what
makes it unique and different.
In 2013 I moved to Perth, Australia and I start observing the lack of historical buildings and an abundance of identical houses and franchised shops. Aboriginal people were considered as “just a bunch of drunks” and their cultural heritage has been wiped out.
Melbourne is still guilty of
wanting to put their culture under the rug, for the sake of modernity and capitalism, of wanting to belong in “modern Times”. From the colonialism of Neerim in 1851, to the subsequential golden rush and building boom of Victorian Houses, now gentrification is taking over imperialist buildings,
in a rat race to gain more money, squishing people together and “standardisation” to be part of globalisation and cut costs.
Colonialism is colonising itself.
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Strongly inspired by Yanni Florence, himself influenced by Robert Frank, I took photographs of unaware people inside a t...
03/05/2021

Strongly inspired by Yanni Florence, himself influenced by Robert Frank, I took photographs of unaware people inside a tram and cropped it as a portrait. They represent our culture, they are bystanders of history, projecting in front of their own eyes. Photos have been taken from: 375 St Kilda Road, 1 Bridge Road cnr Hoddle street, Gertrude Street & 46-48 Nicholson, 95-103 Johnston Street, 187 Abbotsford street, 1017 Rathdowne Street, 628 High Street in Thornbury
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I took this photograph from Melbourne tram stops, while the tram was travelling by. This series feature portraits of ano...
03/05/2021

I took this photograph from Melbourne tram stops, while the tram was travelling by. This series feature portraits of anonymous commuters photographed through tram windows. Inspired from Yanni Florence “Tram Windows” and Robert Frank in the book “the Americans-A foreigner’s road trip”
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Travelling on the opposite or same direction, community and history are always been interrelated. People are bystanders ...
03/05/2021

Travelling on the opposite or same direction, community and history are always been interrelated. People are bystanders of history projected in front of their own eyes, the journey of details and places, the stops and the movements, the beginning and the ends, heritage places and ghosts. Our modern cultural identity influenced by the past around us
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Coming from Italy, where everything is about tradition, I am always chasing cultural elements around me and I think a co...
30/03/2021

Coming from Italy, where everything is about tradition, I am always chasing cultural elements around me and I think a community should take care of their architectural and cultural heritage.
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For this work I am taking inspiration from the landscape and interior photography of Eugene Atget who saw Paris’ medieva...
21/03/2021

For this work I am taking inspiration from the landscape and interior photography of Eugene Atget who saw Paris’ medieval neighbourhoods getting destroyed and started to document them.
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