Romina was born in 1985 in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2006, while studying mass media at Catholic University Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, she began to study photography at the Roberto Mata Photography Workshops. In 2011, she graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She is currently working as a freelance portrait and documentary photographer. Her personal projects explore social realities through portraiture, interviews and research. She is currently based in Bronx, NY.
"Beach Vendors” is an ongoing project about independent workers who make a living selling merchandise on beaches around the world, and, at this stage, particularly in Latin America, combining photography and written interviews. In this body of work, I look into the culture and socio-economic lives of the very edge of our continents, and seek to visually unwrap the reality of those who have the beach not as a space of leisure, but as a workplace.