Landscapes about Us – Ward Roberts
Landscapes about Us
Ward Roberts’ Landscapes About Us series is a distilling exploration of loneliness and isolation.
Robert’s casts his lens to both natural and urban environments in search of locations of melancholic stillness. Rich in all life but human, a sense of desertion & desolation resonates across these landscapes. Arresting silence fills each frame. The landscape is a character; a flesh-less substitute for a lonely human soul who has endured trying times and relationships, but rests now in solitude. Robert’s employs tight formal compositions, but pure minimalism is frequently disrupted by a single object of significance which punctuates the vacant landscape.
Ward Roberts
Ward Forsyth Roberts was born in Adelaide. He lived abroad in Hong Kong for a number of years and returned to Melbourne, Australia where he studied photography in High School.
Ward went on to study photography at RMIT University and graduated with a Bachelor of Photography in 2008.
In the same year, he was awarded the Victorian Photography Student of the Year award in the portraiture category, the ACMP Les Walkling award for Architectural, Industrial and Commercial Photography, the Irwin Maclaren Landscape Award and the Blindspot exhibition peoples choice award.
