Andrew Rovenko
Andrew Rovenko (born 1978) is an Australian photographer of Ukrainian origin who is based in Melbourne. He is known for his award-winning Rocketgirl Chronicles series that was captured in Victoria's coronavirus lockdown. Rovenko was named 2021 Australian Photographer of the Year by the Australian Photography Magazine, as well as 2022 Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer (Portrait) by the Capture Magazine.
Andrew Rovenko
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- Name
- Andrew Rovenko
- Born
- 1978
- Birthplace
- Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Known for
- Photography
- Awards
- 2021 Australian Photographer of the Year
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Andrew Rovenko (born 1978) is an Australian photographer of Ukrainian origin who is based in Melbourne. He is known for his award-winning Rocketgirl Chronicles series that was captured in Victoria's coronavirus lockdown. Rovenko was named 2021 Australian Photographer of the Year by the Australian Photography Magazine, as well as 2022 Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer (Portrait) by the Capture Magazine.
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• Name — Andrew Rovenko • Born — 1978 • Birthplace — Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine) • Occupation — Photographer • Known for — Photography • Notable Works — The Rocketgirl Chronicles • Style — Fine Art • Awards — 2021 Australian Photographer of the Year • Website — rovenko.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Rovenko was born and raised in Odesa, Ukraine and moved to Australia in his mid 20s. He was noticed for his amateur photography first, which led to him being invited to work as a freelance magazine photographer, where he gained professional experience before switching back to personal projects.
Rocketgirl Chronicles
Rocketgirl Chronicles
The Rocketgirl Chronicles is a series of images featuring Rovenko's young daughter in a home-made astronaut suit designed by his wife. With the first photographs originally intended as family memories, documenting the daily walks within the permitted radius under the restrictions of Melbourne's prolonged lockdown, they quickly found resonance both locally and abroad, with high-profile publications including Vogue and Rolling Stone, being featured in exhibitions around the world and receiving multiple international photography awards. The photograph from the series titled "The Shuttle" was selected as the cover for British Journal of Photography "Portrait of Humanity", a yearly publication of remarkable portraits from around the world. With the author being a practitioner of traditional photography workflow, the series was captured on medium format film using Mamiya RZ67 camera.
The Book
The Book
The Rocketgirl Chronicles photography book was published in 2023, attracting acclaim winning 2024 Book Photographer of the Year at Px3 (Prix de la Photographie, Paris) as well as being named Best Fine Art Publication at International Photography Awards and Tokyo International Foto Awards. It includes over 100 images from the project, with ABC news describing the photographs as "timeless and otherworldly".
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 2025 Festival Art Souterrain, Montreal Underground City, Canada • 2025 PX3 Winners and State of the World, House of Lucie, Athens, Greece • 2025 XPosure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE • 2025 Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia • 2024 Treviso Photographic Festival, Luigi Bailo Museum, Italy • 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, Australia • 2024 PX3 Winners and State of the World, Galerie 24b, Paris, France • 2024 CLIP Awards, Perth Centre for Photography, Australia • 2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland • 2024 Marunouchi Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • 2023 Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland • 2023 La Luna Bambina, Cavallerizza, Turin, Italy • 2023 Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Victoria, Australia • 2023 Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain • 2023 FotoZA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa • 2023 Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, US • 2023 The David Roche Foundation House Museum, Adelaide, South Australia • 2023 Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia • 2022 Head On Photo Festival, Sydney • 2022 National Photographic Portrait Prize (National Portrait Gallery of Australia) • 2022 Riaperture, Ferrara, Italy • 2022 Photoville, New York City • 2022 Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne • 2022 OptiKA, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne • 2021 Ilford CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
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Awards
• Siena International Photo Awards, 2025 – Creative Photographer of the Year • Xposure International Photography Awards, 2025 – Portrait Runner-up • International Photography Awards, 2024 – Book/Fine Art Winner • Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), 2024 – Book Photographer of the Year • Belfast Photo Festival, 2024 – Photo Book Winner • Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, 2024 – Finalist • Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, 2024 – Finalist • Photometria Awards, 2024 – Finalist • CLIP Award, 2024 – Finalist • Tokyo International Foto Awards, 2003 – Book/Fine Art Winner • Px3 (Prix de la Photographie, Paris), 2023 – Fine Art/People Winner • Hasselblad Masters, 2023 – Portrait Finalist • Analog Sparks, International Film Photography Awards, 2023 – Fine Art/Conceptual Winner • International Photography Awards, 2022 – 1st place / Analog / Film/Portrait • Tokyo International Foto Awards, 2022 – Fine Art Winner • Fine Art Photo Awards, 2022 – Conceptual Category Winner • ND Awards, 2022 – Fine Art/Conceptual Winner • Life Framer Award, Youthhood, 2022 – 2nd Prize • Australian Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year, 2021 – Overall Winner, Portrait Category Winner • Capture Magazine Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer, 2022 – Portrait Category Winner, Overall Runner-up • Bluethumb Art Prize, 2021 – Photography Category Runner-up • National Portrait Photographic Prize 2022 – Finalist • Kuala Lumpur International Photographic Prize 2022 – Finalist • Wyndham Art Prize, 2022 – Finalist • IMA Next, Japan, 2022 – Finalist • OptiKA Award, 2022 – Finalist
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- 1.s.r.o, RECO. English Version 2021: space oddity. Vogue.pt.
- 2.Photographer of the Year 2021, presented by Nokia: The winners! – Australian Photography. www.australianphotography.com.
- 3.Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer 2022 revealed! – Capture magazine. www.capturemag.com.au.
- 4.mag, the pictorial. INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW ROVENKO. The Pictorial-List. 28 November 2021.
- 5.Andrew Rovenko: The Artist Behind the Iconic Rocketgirl Series. Bluethumb Online Art Gallery – Blog. 1 February 2022.
- 6.The Rocketgirl Chronicles. rps.org.
- 7.a little chat with 'rocketgirl' photographer andrew rovenko. frankie magazine.
- 8.Meet the aspiring Melbourne astronaut who has become an Instagram sensation 7NEWS.
- 9.Trojano, di Filippo. I viaggi stellari di Andrew Rovenko – Q Code.
- 10.四歲的小太空女娃降落在無人的地球？解悶的創意攝影竟贏得了萬人點讚 – HEAVEN RAVEN – HEAVEN RAVEN. www.heavenraven.com.
- 11.La pequeña astronauta, fotos de Andrew Rovenko. RadioCut.
- 12.'The Rocketgirl Chronicles': il viaggio galattico di Andrew Rowenko Rolling Stone Italia. 19 November 2021.
- 13.Portrait of Humanity Vol.5 Winners and Shortlist - 1854 Photography. 1854 Photography.
- 14.Bilton, Ross. Rocketgirl to Earth. The Australian. 12 February 2022.
- 15.PX3 2024 Gold Winner - The Rocketgirl Chronicles - Backyard Space Travel.
- 16.IPA 2024 Winner / The Rocketgirl Chronicles - Backyard Space Travel / Andrew Rovenko. photoawards.com.
- 17.Andrew Rovenko, Winner - The Rocketgirl Chronicles. www.tokyofotoawards.jp.
- 18.Tired of baking sourdough, this Melbourne family began an unusual lockdown project that went viral. ABC News. 2023-12-25.
- 19.Andrew Rovenko. Festival Art Souterrain.
- 20.PX3 & STATE OF THE WORLD WINNERS EXHIBITION. House of Lucie. 2025-03-07.
- 21.WAM. Winners of 9th Xposure International Photography Awards announced. Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema. 2025-02-25.
- 22.Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024. HOTA.
- 23.Ranieri, Paolo Colombatti, immagini di Paolo Colombatti, montaggio di Danilo. Dalle foto un messaggio di Pace, al via il Treviso Photographic Festival. 2024-09-07.
- 24.Council, Townsville City. The Percivals. www.townsville.qld.gov.au. 2024-08-14.
- 25.P×3 - The Prix de la Photographie Paris - Exhibitions.
- 26.Belfast Photo Festival.
- 27.Tokyo Foto Awards - Exhibitions. www.tokyofotoawards.jp.
- 28.Andrew Rovenko, "The Rocketgirl Chronicles". www.vintagephotofestival.com.
- 29.“La Luna Bambina”, alla Cavallerizza tra sogno e realtà - Il Torinese. iltorinese.it.
- 30.National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022. www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au.
- 31.Exhibition - Barcelona - 2023. Life Framer.
- 32.Exhibition - Johannesburg - 2023. Life Framer.
- 33.Exhibition - Bloomington - 2023. Life Framer.
- 34.Card, Seniors. National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 Exhibition. Seniors Card. 2023-01-24.
- 35.National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022. www.noosaregionalgallery.com.au/.
- 36.The rocketgirl chronicles – Head On.
- 37.The Shuttle, 2021. National Photographic Portrait Prize image.
- 38.Andrew Rovenko. Riaperture – Festival di fotografia a Ferrara.
- 39.The Rocketgirl Chronicles. Photoville Festival.
- 40.Wyndham Art Prize 2022 Exhibition Wyndham City. www.wyndham.vic.gov.au.
- 41.OptiKA exhibition 2022. www.kingstonarts.com.au.
- 42.Siena Awards 2025: 'The Shuttle', in arrivo da Melbourne, vincitore assoluto del Creative Photo Awards. RadioSienaTv. 2025-09-29.
- 43.Belfast Photo Festival.
- 44.Photometria Awards 2024 exhibition, ""Constructed Realities" travels in Athens. Photometria - International Photography Festival. 2024-11-16.
- 45.PX3 2023 Winner - The Rocketgirl Chronicles.
- 46.The Rocketgirl Chronicles, Gold Winner in Fine Art/Conceptual.
- 47.IPA 2022 Winner / Rocketgirl Chronicles / Andrew Rovenko. photoawards.com.
- 48.Andrew Rovenko, Winner - The Rocketgirl Chronicles. www.tokyofotoawards.jp.
- 49.Fine Art Photography Awards – Andrew Rovenko 1st Prize Winner in Conceptual. fineartphotoawards.com.
- 50.Fine Art: Conceptual - 1st place gold star award - Andrew Rovenko (Australia). ndawards.net.
- 51.Winners 2022 – Youthhood. Life Framer.
- 52.Photographer of the Year 2021 winners revealed – Capture magazine. www.capturemag.com.au.
- 53.says, Lance Ross. Bluethumb Art Prize 2021 Winners Just Announced! – Art Prizes. Bluethumb Online Art Gallery – Blog. 19 November 2021.
- 54.Andrew Rovenko AUS HOME. klpa.
- 55.Andrew Rovenko Shortlist of "CHILDREN" IMA next – International Photo Competition. IMA next.
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