Rob Vallender Photography

06/05/2017

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2017/6/5/panguna-mine

Once the world's richest open cut gold mine, nowadays Panguna Mine is a
hole in the earth full of toxic substances and big enough for clouds to
live in (see video above). Since its inception, it has been the carrot
dangled by politicians and entrepreneurs to the people of Bougainville. The
m...

03/09/2017

Back to Bougainville http://www.robvallender.com/blog/bougainville2017

07/17/2015

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2015/7/17/my-bougainville-documentary-project

After a 10 year civil war with the Papua New Guinean (PNG) Government, the
Autonomous Region of Bougainville will vote for independence between 2015
and 2020 and my goal is to document what life is like their, through my
photography, during this period.

04/20/2015

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/18/about-charlie-kirk

Charlie Kirk is an English, ex-Japan based corporate lawyer, who is now a
full-time street / documentary photographer, based in Istanbul, Turkey. He
is working obsessively on a book, and he shoots with film, on a Leica,
predominantly in 28mm, in both black and white and colour. He loves grain,
flash, pretty women, "fat kids", "dwarfs", people kissing, ci******es and
beer. He is a great guy and a harsh critic.

03/20/2015

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2015/3/19/next-trip-to-the-autonomous-region-of-bougainville

Last year I started a long-term project to document life in the Autonomous
Region of Bougainville. My goal is to connect with people from across
Bougainville to document what life is like there, to stand as a witness to
the forming of their nation and to add to their voice to the outside world.

08/18/2014

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/29/about-robert-frank

Robert Frank's work 'The Americans' was deemed too controversial at the
time he had completed it. He had essentially created a raw snapshot of
America, warts and all, that no one had ever successfully done before and
this resulted in a die hard following by many influential artists at the
time including Jack Kerouac, the Rolling Stones and Allen Ginsberg.

08/05/2014

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/12/about-alex-webb

Having met Alex and his wife Rebecca in Poland I can say that I really
admire his humility, gentle approach and persistence to capturing difficult
images. He is very down to earth, incredibly approachable and I think that
is what allows him to sometimes become invisible to his subjects. Alex has
achieved a mastery of colour photography and is easily one of my top five
favourite photographers of all time.

07/29/2014

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/14/about-jesse-marlow

Jesse is an Australian documentary photojournalist and street
photographer. I have met him on a few occasions and definitely admire his
long term approach to photography. He is based in Melbourne and shoots both
film and digitally.

07/21/2014

Next blog post is up. If you are interested in photography, have a read:

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/12/about-trent-parke

Trent Parke is the next photographer I thought I should post about as he is an Australian who produces consistently inspiring, unique and well thought out work. And because I'm a massive fan of his work. My Queensland friends should definitely have a look and a laugh at the familiar scenes of his 'A…

07/18/2014

So I started a blog and here it is. If you are interested in photography and want to find out about some of the current and past greats, give it a read:

http://www.robvallender.com/blog/2014/7/16/new-blog

So here we go. This is my first personal blog. I wanted to add this to my website in order to give it a voice and to reflect a bit about myself – photographic influences, rant worthy topics, personal projects, things I would like to support and from time to time what I am up to. It is not meant to…

07/10/2014

http://vimeo.com/99874068

This video shows the winners and finalists' portfolios for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014. Thousands of entries were received from all over the world. The video…

05/22/2014

Recent shot taken in Paris

Model Eva Magnier