For as long as cameras and white dresses have been around, wedding photography has been a staple of the photography industry’s diet, and today more big-day-documentarians exist that ever before. Edwina Robertson’s reason to join this community was originally nothing different as aspirations of travel, flexibility, and income guided her, but Robertson has since found her niche by drawing on her background as a country girl, and her healthy appetite for adventure – both of which have formed the basis of an upcoming photographic experiment that will take her across the country.
Having built a portfolio and a business that have already taken her around Australia and overseas, Robertson’s roots in rural Australia have given her a knowledge and clientele that affords unique visual opportunities. “Wedding photography in rural areas has opened many doors for me,” she says. “The landscapes, the people, and the adventure to get to some of these destinations gives me eternal variety to be creative, and do what I love.”
It’s this love for the outback that has become the impetus for Robertson’s latest project: travelling across the country for three months and trading her skills with a camera for food, fuel, and shelter. A daring move for any practitioner, but ultimately something that represents all that Robertson sees for her career when crossing the culture of city and country with that which is shared by them: weddings. “I cannot wait to highlight the magnificence of the people and the landscapes in rural and regional Australia – there is a huge risk in doing something like this professionally, and for my own personal safety, yet it has been a dream for nearly three years,” she says.
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