With an eye for storytelling through image and form, Janey Roanna explores identity, belonging, and the quiet tension of urban life. Working across analog photography, graphic design, and mixed media, her practice moves between personal experience and collective narratives, capturing human connection and the layered realities of diaspora. Janey Roanna (b. 2001) is a Caribbean–Dutch designer and photographer based in the Netherlands, graduated from Willem de Kooning Academy in 2023.
Exhibition at Brooklyn Navy Yard with Uncool Artists in New York City
This exhibition is a love letter to the raw beauty of New York City and its women. Through analog photography and street-captured portraits, I highlight the strength, style, and energy of female figures moving through the urban jungle. The work doesn’t just reflect the city’s aesthetics, but its attitude—the quiet power, the street style, the gaze that says: I made it here.
This series is a visual rhythm of the everyday—from sidewalk to skyline—with women as carriers of the city’s story.