Roxanne Bennett is an award winning photographer and graduate from Southampton Solent University. Graduating with a first class honours in 2025, Roxanne also received the Rosy Maguire Memorial Prize. After completing university Roxanne became an artist with RIPE, and will be exhibiting in Coconuts #2 at the Alfred Arcade in September 2025. Roxanne has also been nominated for the Platform graduate award 2025 and will exhibit at ASPEX Portsmouth in October 2025.
Roxanne's Main area of focus is film photography, the slow pace and tactile hands on experience of working with film allows her to truly create the image the way she envisions it. However, since finishing university this has been a challenge as they no longer have access to a darkroom.
Most of Roxanne’s work explores relationships, wether that be the extremely personal relationship between herself and her body (Finding the light, 2024), or more frequently, the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. Several of Roxanne’s projects, most notably Icene (2025) which has been selected to be exhibited at ASPEX Portsmouth in October 2025, explore this ever changing relationship. Icene (2025), initially created for her university FMP, followed the entire 26mile River Itchen in Hampshire through the lens of a 5x4 film camera focusing in on the ways humans use the river for their benefit that are slowly damaging the rivers ecosystem. This project was so successful that after its initial exhibition and feature on the cover of the course magazine ‘Pentaprism’ at Solent University in June 2025 it had an article written abut it by the university, and it will go on to be exhibited in RIPE Coconuts #2 at the Alfred Arcade and the Platform graduate award exhibition at ASPEX Portsmouth.
Other projects of Roxanne’s include Family Album (2024), a digital self portrait project in which she recreated old family photographs, exploring not only her own place within her family dynamic but the way in which photographs can influence or even change memories. Frankenstein Flowers (2024), where she used cyanotypes to explore the relationship between photography and truth, and Finding The Light (2024) a deeply personal self portrait series tackling her own insecurities.
RoxanneBphotography has been operating as a freelance photography brand since 2023, capturing beautiful portraits for clients alongside all of Roxanne's project work.
