Roberta Sant’Anna, born in 1989 is a photographer from Porto Alegre in Brazil, living and working in Berlin since 2014. Her youth spent surrounded by nature free to explore the surroundings, played a role in the personality and sight she developed.
Nostalgia has been the booster of her research, implemented by the effort to explore her memories as a way to reconnect with them through a mature glance.
In Water Park what’s displayed it’s a glossy reality that creates an aura of playful mystery. It was first presented in an outdoor exhibition in Paraty in Focus festival in 2013. Shortly after its first exhibition, Water Park was awarded with the Conrado Wessel Award. Roberta was the first female and the youngest one to ever win the prize, a huge recognition from the most prestigious photography competition in Brazil.
About ‘Water Park’– words by Roberta Sant’Anna :
The series Water Park was made over the course of two summers and features water parks in southern Brazil. These huge theme parks are open exclusively during the holiday season for the contentment of middle-class Brazilian families. They are environments of collective catharsis, where physical inhibitions are forgotten, and vanity (as well as fragility) are exposed. It’s a place where the outside world is left behind in the time it takes for a summer day to pass by.
