
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.
Photography, for me, is a form of meditation. A time to observe and comprehend the environment in which I stand. Part documentation, part visual anthropology, my interest exists in making sense of the world. The landscape, architecture and human existence within it.
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.
Often without a camera in hand, I catch myself glancing at something that may only last a split second and, as that moment passes, I have to stop and think about what it was that drew me to it. Shapes pass by and connect as interacting forms, colours and tones, creating for the briefest moment a language that exists within our intrinsic understanding of the world in which we live.