For artists, makers, writers and creative business owners who want imagery that feels honest, personal and deeply connected to their work.

These sessions are designed to move beyond conventional headshots. Together we create portraits that reveal something of your process, your environment and the unique way you move through the world.

Whether photographed in your studio, workshop, home or landscape, the resulting images become a visual extension of your practice.

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Why These Sessions Are Different

Most branding photography focuses on performance.

My approach is quieter and more observant.

Rather than directing every gesture, I create space for genuine moments to emerge. I am interested in the details that make your work uniquely yours: the tools you use, the spaces you inhabit, the rituals of making and the traces of your daily life.

The result is a collection of images that feel natural, enduring and unmistakably personal.

Who These Sessions Are For

  • Visual artists

  • Ceramicists

  • Musicians

  • Writers

  • Designers

  • Florists

  • Makers

  • Small creative businesses

  • Photographers

Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution.

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What You Can Use The Images For

  • Websites

  • Exhibition proposals

  • Grant applications

  • Publications

  • Artist biographies

  • Press features

  • Social media

  • Album artwork

  • Marketing material

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Thoughtful portraits that reflect the person behind the work.

Together, we create a collection of images that may include:

  • Process and making

  • Studio details and textures

  • Environmental portraits

  • Focused, observational moments

  • Your work within its lived context

We might document your hands while you make, the light moving across your studio walls, unfinished pieces, collected objects, moments of stillness or immersion.

The result is a body of images that feels intimate, grounded and reflective of your creative language, images that can live across your website, publications, exhibitions or simply as a record of this season of your practice.

I work in a documentary-led way, observing how you move through your space naturally. There is no pressure to perform or appear polished. Instead, I’m drawn to the subtle things, the gestures, the atmosphere, the relationship between you and your work.

Artist portrait sessions on 35mm film.

Rochelle photographs artists with an attentiveness to both person and practice.

These sessions are an honest portrait of you within your practice- your studio, your home, your process, your materials, your rituals.

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The fabulous @lily.ray.photography in her Cyanotype dress at FilmBlood earlier this year. Lily’s creativity both in front of and behind the camera is captivating. Once again, a big thank you to @sarahblack_was_here for fostering this beautiful
Dragonfly. - Thanks you @ikigaifilmlab for film processing and scans. - Rochelle Tissa is a Melbourne-based photographic artist working across analogue and digital processes. Drawn to fleeting moments where light, gesture, and atmosphere converge
Motherhood. Loren @lorenkdarcy and Mia at home 🤍 - @mthrmagazine Rochelle Tissa is a photographic artist whose work begins with observation. Responding instinctively to moments as they unfold, she explores the intersection of light, form, and fe
Light cast across skin and sheets. - Rochelle Tissa is a photographic artist based in Melbourne. Responding instinctively to moments as they unfold, she explores the intersection of light, form, and feeling, creating images that find the universal
Elsie and Margot on 35mm expired film. - @ikigaifilmlab for film processing and scanning Rochelle Tissa is a photographic artist whose work begins with observation. Responding instinctively to moments as they unfold, she explores the intersectio
I was lucky enough to hang out with my gorgeous friend @mia_sully recently and capture a few moments in her artistic practice. Her sense of colour, her articulation of movement have alway inspired me- leaving me with a feeling that I wish I wielded a
I got to hang out again with this beautiful babe @leeshf 🧡 We spent a fun couple of hours, literally in fits of laughter at times, documenting this new chapter of family life after the arrival of baby Lyla. Tiny hands, sleepy stretches, soft morning
Family portrait of the three of us. There aren’t many. Note to self, take more pictures. Film processing and scanning @ikigaifilmlab - Rochelle Tissa is a Melbourne-based photographic artist working across film and digital photography. Her
Childhood asks so little of a moment. A shaft of light like from a dream. A small plane. Somewhere to imagine going. For #PVMondayDreams @photovogue Process and scanning thanks to @ikigaifilmlab - Rochelle Tissa is a Melbourne-based photograph
Kids in the back yard of suburbia. Process and scanning by @ikigaifilmlab 🙏🏻 - Rochelle Tissa is a Melbourne-based photographic artist working across film and digital photography. Her practice explores womanhood, family ritual, and the rhythms o
Home, misplaced. A living room abandoned to the pines. What we build for comfort can so easily become ruin, relic. I happened upon this unexpected scene in the forest just outside of Hobart last year. For #PVMondayHome @photovogue - Rochelle Tis
The Second Cousin’s by the stream at Easter. - @ikigaifilmlab for film processing and scanning 🧡 @kodak Ultramax 400 - Rochelle Tissa is a Melbourne-based photographic artist working across film and digital photography. Her practice explor