Robert's collections have been shown in more than 40 international exhibitions, and in the past 15 years he has been running more than 40 intensive digital & analogue photography workshops and courses in Italy, Croatia and Spain and of course in Australia. Robert continues to work as a freelance photographer and teaches the basics of photography as well as advanced printing techniques. Since his arrival in Australia in 2014, he has organized and taught two courses of advanced techniques of printing in B/W at the STRANGE NEIGHBOUR darkroom in Fitzroy, one photographic course in his studio in Daylesford , and he has done 5 photographic exhibitions.
Robert Marnika has moved to Australia four years ago . With over 25 years of experience in a range of photographic styles and services [from industrial photography to portraiture], Robert has dedicated much of his career to both teaching darkroom techniques and artistic photography. He has taught in Italy, Croatia and Spain and Australia and has won several significant Italian and international photography prizes.
For example In 2006, he won the first prize for the “Fragments of a memory” collection at the Photography Festival in Rome. The work was mainly done in a darkroom using discarded images from the war years in Croatia in the early 90’s.
Consequently, he was granted access to Portfolio 2006 in Prato (Tuscany), where he was awarded the second prize for the best photographic portfolio in Italy.
In 2009, he published a book “Zadar 1991...Fragments of memory” with POSTCART, an Italian publisher from Rome, and in the book he was primarily exploring the concept of memory in relation to those tragic years of war.
In recent times, his work has received several recognition as he continue to explore his passion for art photography and jazz music, portraying internationally acclaimed musicians
