Raphaela Rosella
Photographer
Raphaela Rosella (1988) is an Australian documentary storyteller from Nimbin, Australia. Raphaela is currently issue editor of The Australian Photojournalist, a non-profit publication dedicated to giving voice, celebrating the human condition and casting a critical eye on journalism and mass media practices. Raphaela works closely with organizations, Slippry Sirkus and Beyond Empathy across communities facing recurring hardship, in a hope to use photography to influence change. She was recently awarded the FujiFilm Photographic Award, a scholarship presented to a body of work that documents aspects of the human condition and was given an honorable mention for her young mothers project entered in the FotoVisura Spotlight Grant 2011. Named Australia’s Top Emerging Documentary Photographer by Capture Magazine, Raphaela most recently was awarded the Qantas SOYA Photographic where she travelled to France and attended a workshop with Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti during Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Raphaela holds a Bachelor of Photography majoring in Photojournalism with first class honours and is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.
She joined Oculi in 2012.