Keren Dobia is the photographer and creative director of the theatrical compositions. She designs, creates and sources both costumes and sets. Under her careful direction, and with the help of a small army of dedicated makeup artists, hairstylists, models and assistants, her mystical dreamscapes are awoken. Her passion for the visual arts is what has driven her to create much of her dramatic and emotive imagery. Her background in painting and drawing has allowed her to blur the line between photography and illustration. Keren's passion for her craft and utter enthusiasm when creating the "perfect" image inspires and excites everyone around her.

Keren's most recent work has been a creative collaboration between young Queensland designer Rebecca Cobbing and herself, in which she was approached by this wonderful designer to create evocative, high fashion inspired images, that were also a little fun. Keren was given full creative freedom in creating these images and it has allowed her personal style and imagination to really shine through, while still showing off the beautiful designs.

Some of Keren's work explores the emotions and fantasies that permeate the settings of children's tales and the way that these emotions are carried through into our adult lives. A combination of lighting, montage and imagination, help Keren to reunite us with these forgotten scenes. Like us, these scenes have also grown up. Keren's work lusts after a childhood past, whilst at the same time, it glorifies the wild possibilities that come with adulthood.

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Keren is a recent graduate of the NMIT Diploma of Photoimaging. She has previously exhibited her work in a variety of different exhibitions, most notably at Obscura Gallery (a fine art photography gallery) in St. Kilda. She has been the recipient of various awards and accolades at both the APPA AIPP awards, NMIT Photoimaging Student of the Year (2009), Canson Masterpiece Student Awards - Photographer of the Year (2009), AIPP Victorian Emerging Photographer of the Year 2010 where she was judged by her professional colleagues and most recently named AIPP Victorian Documentary Photographer of the year, 2011.

This is only the beginning of what we suspect will be a very successful career.

 
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