Romina Hendlin

Born in Venezuela, Romina Hendlin holds a BA in Mass Media with a mayor in AudioVisual Arts from the Catholic University in Caracas. She started her photography studies at Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía and later graduated from the International Center of Photography in NYC. Currently she is enrolled in the Master in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.She received the Sam Sahid Scholarship for her project Dominican Family and was accepted to the Foundry Photojournalism Workshops with the Ricoh Scholarships for her project Growing Together. 

Romina has participated in group shows in Caracas and New York and had her first solo exhibition in Caracas for her project To Live.Her work for the past 10 years has been an exploration of the human condition through the exchange of conversations and photography. The projects she makes are grounded on a sensitivity to the social and economic disparities of the world. 

Formed as a documentary photographer and a visual anthropologist, her main interest is to talk about resilience, informal economy, migration and the struggle to make ends meet. It is not just about showing a reality that doesn’t change, that is systematic, but to generate spaces to discuss and reflect on it. she believes through photography we enable that space.

Although currently, she is Argentina, Romina Hendlin is based in New York and is available for assignments worldwide.