Auckland Festival of Photography presents an illustrated talk by Malaysian born, London based freelance photographer Steven V-L Lee who began his began his photographic career as a documentary and travel photographer in the late 1990s.
Auckland Festival of Photography is New Zealand's premium international photographic festival, that brings together photographers, curators, students, amateurs and professionals with the aim of encouraging the public to celebrate the art of photography.
Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele discusses his photographic project Out of Context which focusses on his generation of Polynesians born to migrant Pacific Island parents as well as urban Māori.
Senior Curator Ron Brownson and long-time friend of the late and much acclaimed photographer, Marti Friedlander, discusses her work and the legacy she left to the people of Auckland through her gifting of her photographs, which provides us with an invaluable visual record of Auckland’s mid century heritage.
This event showcases The New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP) and includes an illustrated presentation of the Iris Awards and the annual Infocus event. There will be presentations by some of NZIPP's leading photographers as well as a panel discussion on the changing dynamic of the photographic industry in today’s market.
Enjoy a screening of The air is a material, a new documentary film on the work of contemporary New Zealand photographer Ann Shelton. This screening has been cancelled
This day-long symposium invites artists, writers, critics, academics and others to reflect on the work that photographs can do today and the changing significance of the image as a social or cultural representation.
Boost your skills at using photography as a storytelling medium and rediscover ways to share your images with the world in ways beyond our digital devices. Through exercises carefully curated by photographer and award-winning publisher Simon Devitt you will gain new perspectives and make a start on creating or further developing your own visual language.
Auckland Festival of Photography presents an illustrated talk by Alejandro Chaskielberg, an independent photographer, videographer and teacher who has established a worldwide reputation for his innovative vision and sensibility that crosses the boundaries between document and art.
Immerse yourself in the pioneering photographs of Len Casbolt and learn from curator Ron Brownson how Casbolt spearheaded art photography in post-WWI New Zealand.
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Auckland Dr Stephen Turner discusses the photographic series by Ann Shelton A Ride in the Darkness, which takes the notion of wastelands as a jumping off point to discuss European land occupation in early Aotearoa New Zealand.
Join Simon Devitt for an illustrated talk on his practice as a photographer of architecture, people and place. He will discuss why he believes the other senses are so important in how we view and engage with the idea of place.
Come along and have your photography appraised by local and international experts, including; James Dooley, Scott A. Woodward, Mayumi Suzuki, Ingetje Tadros and Chris Traill.
Celebrate the life and work of New Zealand’s most prolific professional colonial painter. With over 120 portraits, a dozen genre paintings, accompanying photographs and artefacts, this is show is a must-see for anyone with an interest in early New Zealand art and history.
The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade throughout the Earth’s polar regions, Speechless – The Polar Realm is a non-verbal visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe.
Do you have hundreds of digital photos clogging up your devices? If so, join this half-day workshop and learn from photographer, lecturer and award-winning publisher Simon Devitt how to make your daily snaps more interesting.
Marti: The Passionate Eye traces the dramatic personal story of Marti Friedlander (1928–2016), one of New Zealand’s leading photographers, alongside the major social changes she recorded.
Photographer, lecturer and award-winning publisher Simon Devitt is on a mission: teaching you how to make your daily snaps more interesting. Through playful exercises in and around Auckland Art Gallery you will discover new perspectives and make a start with creating or further developing your own visual language.
Join us for a talk with Ann Shelton, the day before the Auckland Art Gallery opens her new exhibition Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, the first major review of the Wellington photographer’s 20 years of practice.
Assistant Curator Emma Jameson examines how From Soft Focus to Sharp Vision redresses the lack of historical attention invested in the life and work of Len Casbolt and discusses the significance of his important contribution to New Zealand photographic practice.
Senior Curator, Mary Kisler looks at the symbolism of the vanitas used by both 17th century painters such as Bourjinon, Collier and Netscher and contemporary New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington.
During the Taliban regime, photography was illegal in Afghanistan. When the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photographic revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops and media withdraw, Afghanistan is left to stand on its own, and so are its journalists.
Earlybird Members $225 (book before 1 April), Members $250, Non-Members $300 (includes a membership) Book now
Photographer, lecturer and award-winning publisher Simon Devitt returns with an exciting two-day workshop (two consecutive Sundays) dedicated to developing your visual language. Expand your skillset through curated practical exercises and gain an advanced understanding of photography as a storytelling medium.
Singapore-based artist Oh Soon Hwa discusses her photographic series Quiet Dream which was set around a small island in the Mekong Delta nicknamed 'Taiwanese Island' where many young women have married foreigners such as Taiwanese or Korean men and left their homeland to get a better life.
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