Growing up on a sailboat on the coast of British Columbia and harvesting wild rice on isolated lakes of Manitoba for the first fourteen years of her life, Roberta developed a love of remote and rugged environments, solitude and open spaces. From these early experiences grew an insatiable curiosity to explore and the invaluable skills of self-reliance that laid the groundwork for her later mountaineering and single-handed offshore sailing projects. It seems just as natural that these inspirations would fuel her passion for photography and, that photography in turn would allow Roberta to continue her explorations from a new perspective.

Roberta Holden was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1977. She earned a BA in geography from the University of British Columbia and a certificate in photography from Focal Point, the Visual Arts Learning Institute. Roberta currently volunteers as a search and rescuer with the Lions Bay Mountain Rescue Team north of Vancouver and was an official artist of the International Polar Year (2007-08). Roberta is represented by the gallery 'Chambre avec Vues' in Paris, France and Galerie Gora in Montreal, Canada and will soon be publishing her first book with with No Barriers Photography Press in January 2010.

All images© Roberta Holden 2008 -/- Design by Mathieu Saindrenan