Rosa was born in Germany to a Bosnian-Croatian mother escaping the Balkan War. Her childhood was dictated by the nomadic lifestyle forced onto her family by their status as refugees. Upon having settled in north Italy, Rosa went on to complete a degree in aesthetic philosophy in Milan.
The combination of her studies and her profound appreciation for cinema and photography led to the latter becoming one of the main ways in which she beholds and internalizes experience. Through this medium, and drawing on the lessons of her unconventional upbringing, Rosa seeks to examine how societies adapt and evolve to war-time settings.
