
Josh Robenstone is a documentary and editorial photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been published in national and international publications, including The Good Weekend Magazine, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, The Weekend Australian Magazine, The Observer Magazine (UK) and The New York Times 'T' Magazine. His photographs are held in numerous private collections in Australia and internationally. Basta!, Robenstone's first published monograph, is held in the National Gallery of Australia's permanent collection.
“… What is powerful about Robenstone’s photographs is that he does not attempt to overcome this condition. He does not reach beyond the glass or move outside of the managed movement for some ‘truer’ image, some unmediated access to a reality that remains closed to him. Instead, the work takes the constraint as its subject. The act of making images through the bus window, with its reflections and visual softness, becomes part of the image itself, rather than a photographic problem to be solved.”
— Excerpt from On Mediated Looking, Dr Kate Robertson
“Nothing is beneath photographing, and nothing is above it. The ordinary is never really ordinary but rather the accumulation of everything we have learned to move past without seeing. There is an edge to things, a space between people, a geometry to unplanned moments that only reveals itself when we're paying the right kind of attention.”
— Josh Robenstone