ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Wondering What my Future Holds, When the Looking Glass is More Meshed Than I Imagined It is!

Shooting a Chef through His Sieve, Just to cheer him up, When he was worried about his Future in the COVID times.

AUTHOR
About me

My name is Josephine Roberte and when I was a little girl I enjoyed taking photographs with my box brownie, mostly abstract forms and people. Later I studied at Julian Ashton's Art School where I did life drawing. Later I met Wolfgang Sievers who became my god father, who was an amazing character, larger than life, who specialist in industrial photography. He photographed our family and he was a great inspiration to me as he was a fighter for human rights and his photography was pure and strong.
Later I studied at Shillito Design School where the progressive ideas of the Bauhaus were taught.

Later I worked in Advertising, And the art director recognised that I had eye and then the Art Diector would give me his Hasselblad camera to take the photographs rather than employing a professional outside.
He said then that photography should be your direction.

Later my mother died tragically who was an accomplished painter, I put the camera a side and travelled to Asia and Europe and then married in Cameroon.
For some years I lived and worked in Paris.
I Gave birth to a son and renovated my apartment and never used my camera strangely even though I was living in a cultural paradise.
I was fascinated by the grand architecture and the extraordinary mix of European elegant styles and African boldness in both the world of fashion and art.

I paint with light and I use available light.
The techniques I use in photography also adopt a more classical and traditional approach with a deliberate pursuit to avoid photographic tricks or modern digital processes.
My subjects pose in a more natural way, not too much setting up. As a woman artist I see the female/ male nude with a different view and

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