Fall in love with the beauty of nature with Robbie

Robbie's fascination with the beauty of nature and flowers began at an early age in Zimbabwe. His love of flowers has led him to create a floristry book containing a vast collection of deconstructed flowers as a way to share his profound passion with the world.
1000 LONDONERS
This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com
TRANSCRIPT
- When I think of beauty instantly, nature. I mean the majesty of nature. The beauty of plants and flowers and the natural world. I just am utterly fascinated and delighted with. I grew up in Zimbawe, so I'm African by birth. Flowers really captured my imagination from a very young age. I was just kind of enraptured by them. At senior school we spent 5 days up in the mountains. This place called Ringwood. Bernie the guy who ran it noticed and acknowledged my love of nature. My love of plants and flowers wasn't really something that had a currency at school. What I loved was ridiculed rather than appreciated. To have my love of plants and flowers affirmed and affirmed in front of my peers, was I think quite a turning point for me. A friend of mine gave me a book called one sketch a day and the provisor is as you can imagine is drawing one little sketch a day. And so I started doing that and you know very quick sketches and out of that I started, unsurprisingly, drawing flowers. One day I drew a flower that was a little ginger lily a Hedychium coronarium and then I sort of absent-mindedly took it apart and then laid out some of its parts and then I sketched those. I kind of liked what I saw there and slowly this developed into me photographing deconstructed flowers and plants. I'm very interested in botany academically but when I come to photographing something I don't photograph it in an academic style. I only include in my compositions what I find very beautiful. And that is not to say that the individual piece is not beautiful it's just how it looks in my composition. I had no idea that it would become a book. A book was always something I wanted to do. And expect that it would probably be a floristry book But this book couldn't be more me. I've always seen the beauty in flowers. It gives me so much joy to share in the delight of that beauty with others. Click the videos to watch more Londoners and don't forget to subscribe.