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ARTIST CV
Josh Robenstone is a
Melbourne-based photographic artist who devotes much of his time to
documentary and street photography projects in Melbourne and across
the globe.
Robenstone also works as a
freelance photojournalist for various national and international
newspapers and magazines, including the Australian Financial
Review, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
His credits include awards at
the Nikon Summer Salon, The Linden Postcard Show, a finalist and
semi-finalist at the Moran Photographic Prize as well as a finalist
in the Head-On Portrait Prize.
He has recently received an
Arts Victoria Grant in association with a Melbourne-based not for
profit organisation to begin work on a photographic based project
in the coming months.
Robenstone has exhibited widely
throughout Australia and his work is held in numerous public and
private collections Nationwide.
Exhibiting
Yes U Can at Kazari Collector 2nd-30 April
In August 2008, in concurrence
with the Olympic Games, photographer Josh Robenstone travelled to
Beijing to document life on the streets of one of the world's most
developing cities.
Paying particular attention to people's relationship within their
environment, Robenstone was interested in the social portrayal of
the population through both corporate advertising and government
propaganda, specifically designed for display during the Games.
The idea of unity and power in numbers, juxtaposed against a strong
sense of growing individualism and self-centric desires within the
younger population has been made evident in Robenstone's social
commentary.
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