BIO

Roberto Frankenberg is a Paris-based photographer whose work moves between portraiture and landscape.
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to a Dutch father and a Brazilian mother, he discovered photography as a teenager. After studying Business Administration, he began his career as an assistant in a fashion and advertising studio in São Paulo, where he developed a technical foundation that would later support a more introspective practice.
After relocating to Paris, his focus gradually shifted from fashion to portraiture and to more personal, contemplative work.
Faces and places, encountered or remembered, form the heart of his visual language.
His images, often marked by stillness and subtle emotion, have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Liberation, Le Monde an L’Equipe.

He is also a lecturer at Gobelins, L’Ecole de l’Image in Paris, where he leads masterclasses on the practice of portraiture.

Selected Personal Projects
– Traces: Roberto Frankenberg’s photographic series Traces, inspired by his father’s personal history,
explores the landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe as sites of Holocaust memory.
– Full Moon: A series of moonlit landscapes exploring slowness and timelessness

Exhibitions (selected)
– 2025: Laura de Porz Melloc: solo exhibition devoted to Laura, a workhorse, on Ile de Batz, Brittany, France.
– 2024: Traces, solo exhibition, Museu Judaico de São Paulo
– 2021: L’Énigme et le moment suspendu, solo exhibition of his portraits at the 3rd Biennale de la Photographie à Paris
– 2020: Traces featured in the group exhibition Invisible Wounds at the Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK —
an exhibition exploring the enduring presence of trauma and how landscapes bear witness to history
– 2015: Traces, solo show, at the Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil
– 2015: Der de Libé, Map Photo Festival, Toulouse – a selection of portraits shot for newspaper Libération
– 2014: Traces solo exhibition featured at Le Mois de la Photo à Paris – under the patronage of La Maison Européenne de la Photographie
– 2012: Regards Portrait, group show of portraits with Modds Agency, under the patronage of La Maison Européenne de la Photographie
– 2010: Full Moon, solo exhibition, Île de Batz, Brittany, France
– 2009: Full Moon, featured at the Promenades Photographiques Festival, in Vendôme, France