Roxane's early life on the streets has shaped her work. From her uncompromising photojournalistic work to her gritty staged fine art; from her staged fantasy scenes to her studies of figures alone; Roxane explores the struggles she herself endured and demons she has battled, flinching from nothing. The human condition, the lengths we will go in order to improve our condition or the depths we will sink in order to degrade another's are major themes. From the unreasonable hate in the face of the antagonists at a West Virginian KKK rally to the hypocritical anger of the protestors on the other side of the barricade, Roxane covers both as part of her photojournalist work.
Each story has two sides, Roxane shows us.
Sometimes they are both wrong.
Roxane's fine art work can be staged, it can be abstract, but it is always beautiful. Her darker themes of self destruction and the hidden scars visible in some of her portraits bridge reality with staged. The theater of life is sometimes more real than what happens off stage, Roxane tells us. Sometimes when acting, we are sharing our true, secret self; that self which no one sees, but which Roxane captures in her images.