Rosa was born on 16th November 1989, In Hackney, London. From there, she moved to Kidderminster in Worcestershire, and then to East Sussex, living in Wadhurst and Hastings.

Rosa's secondary education was at Uplands Community College, Wadhurst, where she first began studying photography, doing an AS level and an A level in Photography. After this, she attended Ravensbourne College in Bromley, where she achieved a merit in a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, specialising in lens-based media.

Rosa currently lives in Cardiff, Wales, where she's studying for a BA in Documentary Photography at Newport University. At the start of the course her main interest in photography was photojournalism, specifically war photography. However, now in her third year, she's tending towards a more editorial style, although still with a journalistic approach. Her work is often politically driven, exploring the issues of class; recently, she has been especially interested in looking at our idea of the family.

Rosa has also done a couple of internships. She lived in New York for a while and worked as an assistant to photographer Steve Pyke (staff photographer for The New Yorker). While working for Steve she accompanied and assisted on shoots, organised his back catalogue of work, and made tea. She also did an internship for Photoworks magazine in Brighton. Here she reorganised their cataloguing system and helped arrange their extensive archive of publishings.

As well as her projects for my university course, Rosa has done some volunteer photography jobs for charities and some wedding photography, as well as helping to organise and showing work in exhibitions linked with Newport University.