User:Rena Harvey

Rena Harvey — Photographer, Director of Studio 76 Artist Group (http://studio76.com.au/) Founder of REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES Art Movement (http://realpeoplerealstories.com.au/).

Rena Harvey was born in 1976 in Melbourne, Australia. At an early age, she began to study Performing Arts, Drama and Contemporary Dance, where she graduated from Deakin University (Rusden) in 1998. At age 22, she set out on an intrepid journey through Asia and Europe to experience the art of life. While working in Vietnam as a scuba-diving instructor, Harvey was drawn to the underwater world, spiritual lands and real people, and with her past down Pratika SLR 35mm camera, her photographic journey of passion began.

Rena Harvey's extensive training in front of the camera from a young age, taught her the necessary skills needed to succeed later in life as a successful photographer. Rena has accomplished a professional reputation and a huge range of memorable images from her creative life. Her ability to capture people’s beauty from within is truly her strongest specialty. To inspire; her purpose.

Combined with her love of colour, fashion and beauty, Harvey continued to shoot fashion with some of the most beautiful talent in Australia. Her images featured in Magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Girlfriend, Playboy, Travel Weekly, TV Week, Cosmopolitan and Shop til you drop. She captured the life and colour of the major fashion festivals such as L'Oreal, Melbourne Spring, and Mercedes Fashion week.

In 2006, Harvey moved on to shooting campaigns and bringing clients products to life, clients such as Tilkah, Australian Urban Ugg (Flocks), Engine Swim, Vicious Threads, Vintage Princess, PO BOX, to name a few.

In 2009, Harvey formed the company "Studio 76 Artist Group" a team of creative artists that came together and produced cutting edge photography, set design, styling, professional hair & makeup and post production services including high-end digital image retouching for her all her clients.

After 6 years of work, Harvey focused back to her original passion of life and drama, and set herself into fifth gear and began shooting "Real People Real Stories", the Art Movement. A collection of images that reveal strong and controversial themes and intimately looks at all parts of human existence. Focusing on various aspects and topics life challenges us with everyday.

Harvey wanted to take her photography to another level and be a part of something new, memorable, honest and powerful; the beginning of a global exhibition that pushes the boundaries, defines our existence and interacts with it's audience giving a new world of insight in the 21st Century. She invited real people all over the Australia to tell her their stories, and then created that ever so powerful story into a extraordinary photographic image alongside Michael Hall that enhanced the image into a 3D visual stimulation of advanced technology, beyond this decade.

Rena Harvey started this project in 2010 in order to raise awareness to the public that "you are not alone", that millions of individuals have experienced the same emotions and similar situations as you". The aim is to extract real human emotions that are experienced throughout various lives and allowing the public to relate and appreciate them through this art form. Most of all to display the true meaning of life!

Rena Harvey has a respectful reputation in the field and has touched thousands by her powerful imagery. She started this art movement in order to voice her extraordinary personal life journey, one of many years of abuse and allow others to follow in her foot steps and open up have the opportunity to tell theirs. Her moto "your greatest suffering, you will led you to your greatest transformation".....Rena Harvey

Some topics include: Happiness, Abuse, Muslims, Suicide, Fetishes, Family, Depression, Evil, Gangs, Mental, Homeless, Aboriginals, Racism, Affairs, Love, Strangers, Drugs, Poverty, Prostitution, Jail just to mention a few.

Basically she just wants to make you laugh, cry but most of all, feel a connection! "Know you are not alone, millions of individuals have experienced the same emotions and similar situations as you". "Everyone can relate and be truly touched by at least one image". Rena harvey.

'Real People Real Stories' is a platform that offers a voice for 'real' everyday people. A birthing of an ART MOVEMENT that launches in Melbourne on November 27th 2010 held at ACMI.