Roni has had a successful career in magazine editorial, fashion, portraiture and wedding imagery. Hers is a timeless style that comes from years of artistic expression. Roni Ziemba’s photographic and photopainting works have been featured and sold in galleries throughout the western U.S., including the Tucson Museum of Art and the Museum of the Yellowstone in Wyoming.
Roni began exploring Montana 15 years ago and eventually came to live there. During that time she became immersed in the ranching lifestyle. She spends her personal time on horseback, photographing ranches and rodeos and doing her part to record cowboy culture throughout the American West. For five years Roni was resident photographer at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson. Returning solely to the business of photography, she wanders where the client needs – but primarily splits her time between Arizona and Montana.
Background
To truly understand Roni’s eclectic work, one must appreciate her expansive personal and professional background. Raised in the Orient, she has traveled extensively around the world since childhood. Her business sense was honed by management training with Estee Lauder International. Later, she founded Mentor 2000 Inc. in New York City where she produced events and lectured nationally on human potential and personal development. Then, in Los Angeles she worked as assistant to the director Phil Robinson (Field of Dreams) during the filming of Sneakers with Robert Redford.
Her work in the field of human rights and public service for the past 15 years reflects the heart and soul that appear in her photographic imagery. Of note, she was one of 27 American delegates who traveled to Baghdad, Iraq to secure the release of 42 hostages only weeks before the first Gulf War; she produced and managed a series of national events for Amnesty International, working with such leaders as Cesar Chavez and during 1994, Roni worked directly with then-President of the United Nations, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, producing an event to benefit the people of Bosnia during the war in former Yugoslavia.
Roni Ziemba developed her photographic eye apprenticing in Los Angeles under Master Printer Michel Karmen on works of such greats as Sally Mann, Irving Penn and Helmut Newton. At the same time Roni was photographing celebrities for Venice Magazine. In 1992 her gallery showing of Native American images Indigenous Struggles was presented at X-IBIT Gallery, Los Angeles. Making the move to Phoenix, Arizona, Roni began as a photo studio manager creating organizational and business systems, managing digital imaging services and pre-press elements while developing a freelance photo clientele. In 1995 Ziemba Photographic was established.
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“My creative expression through photography would not have been possible without the inspiration and support of friends and family. To Joseph for giving me my first real camera. To Michel for showing me what great prints and great photographs really are. To David for the years of friendship and photographic collaboration (not to mention all of the amazing equipment. To Dad for all of the great photo adventures we’ve had, and all those yet to come. (My father has died since this was originally written…. see Books in Development / Goodnight Sweet Prince.) And especially to Mom who always told me that I could do anything.”
- Roni Ziemba
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