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.
Senior Curator Ron Brownson discusses the photography of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Andreas Gursky that features in Other People Think – an exhibition that highlights many of the previously unseen works from the Gallery’s international contemporary collection.
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.
From the sublime to the surreal, the familiar to the forgotten, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa curator Athol McCredie has curated 200 years of NZ photography into one volume, New Zealand Photography Collected (shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards) providing both a history of the medium and a powerful portrait of our shifting identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scott A. Woodward's work features regularly in a variety of international publications, including National Geographic, GEO, The New York Times and The Washington Post. His documentary work All The World's A Stage is at Studio One from 1–15 June. Woodward discusses his work as a visual storyteller.
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.
Auckland Festival of Photography presents an illustrated talk by Ingetje Tadros (Western Australia). Ingetje discusses her award-winning ongoing and important work, This Is My Country which documents the complexities of race and culture of Australia’s indigenous people.
Taking the format of the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs curator and writer Susan Bright’s talk will take eight images that have influenced her thinking and approach to photography.
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.
Each year, an Auckland-based artist is commissioned to create a new body of work for exhibition during the Auckland Festival of Photography. Join this year's commissioned artist, Janet Lilo, in conversation with Shahidul Alam.
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.
Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer’s painting technique from Principal Conservator Sarah Hillary. Her talk considers to what extent the artist relied on photography and how knowledge of technique can help in authentication. Sarah will compare the artist’s work with the other famous painter of Māori, CF Goldie, and discuss what has been gained from the examination of Lindauer forgeries.
Using paint, photography and collage participants will experiment with creating portraits inspired by the exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand.
Cassandra Barnett, discusses Ann Shelton’s photography using nature and plants and through this lens, considers how her practice connects to the Aotearoa New Zealand context and questions of colonialism.
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