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PhotoForum Fundraising Auction 6 December

Mark Adams • Greta Anderson • Denise Batchelor • Ziggy Bond • Caryline Boreham • Wendy Brandon • Cathy Carter • David Cowlard • Karen Crisp • Harry Culy • Tim D • Julie Downie • Luke Foley-Martin • Sue Gee • Derek Henderson • Christine Jeffs • Harry Lowe • Allan McDonald • Theo Macdonald • Anton Maurer • Shaday Moore • Sara Orme • John Pennington • Jess Preston • Yvonne Shaw • Ann Shelton • Geoffrey Short • Clive Stone • Jenny Tomlin • John B. Turner • Kate van der Drift • Tim J. Veling • Simon Young

Viewing and bidding online 1 - 6 December. Auctions close between 6:15pm and 7:50pm

Closing event and celebration Saturday 6 December from 5 to 8pm
DEMO artspace, 3 Water St, Grafton, Auckland

All photographs will be auctioned via TradeMe from 1 December. All welcome to the closing event at Demo. Bring a device that you can use to make your TradeMe bids!

PhotoForum Open Call 2025

PhotoForum invites submissions for a series of open calls.

1. PhotoForum Print Publications

2. Online Exhibitions

Launch of New PhotoForum Publications

Julie Downie, Known treasure that can only be examined in a second life

Ryan Lindborg, The Big Island

6-8pm, Tuesday 3 June

SKAR Image Lab, 1 New Bond St, Kingsland

Dance, Dance

Kate van der Drift

Sanderson Contemporary

28 May – 22 June, 2025

PhotoForum re-publish Virginia Were’s essay which was first commissioned to accompany Kate van der Drift’s exhibition Dance, Dance at Sanderson Contemporary.

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Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau: Women and Photography Māreikura Whakaahua

Lissa Mitchell

Published by Te Papa Press, February 2026
232 Pages
Limpbound
ISBN: 978-1-99-107219-1
On sale 12 February 2026
NZ$35

“Researching, collecting and writing about photography, I have often wondered where the women were.”—Lissa Mitchell

one foot on the bottom

Mary Macpherson

Published by Rim Books, 2026

112 pages, 54 photographs
Softcover with flaps
Section sewn, layflat binding
Design Mary Macpherson and Katrina Duncan
Editing Peter Black and Mary Macpherson

Edition of 100
RRP $80.00

AInthropology AInthropologie

Jon Carapiet

Distributed by Rim Books www.rimbooks.com
198 mm x 198mm, soft cover, 46 pages, 25 images
English and French
ISBN 978-1-0670400-0-0

RRP $55 +gst

Tomorrow's Sun

Andrew Beck

Starkwhite
94 Newton Road, Auckland

31 January - 7 March 2026
Opening Fri 30 Jan, 5.30 - 7.30 pm

UTILITY

Gary McClintock

Space Studio & Gallery
18 Street Hill Street, Whanganui

13 - 24 January 2026

Opening: 14 January, 5:30 pm

A Selective Eye, Photographs 1975-2025

Richard Wotton

Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
4 Pukenamu Drive, Whanganui

13 December , 2025 – 3 May, 2026

Across Three Shores

Cathy Carter, Chauncey Flay, Chloe Streeter

Muse Art Gallery
5 Havelock Road, Havelock North

5 - 30 December 2025

PhotoForum Fundraising Auction 6 December

Mark Adams • Greta Anderson • Denise Batchelor • Ziggy Bond • Caryline Boreham • Wendy Brandon • Cathy Carter • David Cowlard • Karen Crisp • Harry Culy • Tim D • Julie Downie • Luke Foley-Martin • Sue Gee • Derek Henderson • Christine Jeffs • Harry Lowe • Allan McDonald • Theo Macdonald • Anton Maurer • Shaday Moore • Sara Orme • John Pennington • Jess Preston • Yvonne Shaw • Ann Shelton • Geoffrey Short • Clive Stone • Jenny Tomlin • John B. Turner • Kate van der Drift • Tim J. Veling • Simon Young

Viewing and bidding online 1 - 6 December. Auctions close between 6:15pm and 7:50pm

Closing event and celebration Saturday 6 December from 5 to 8pm
DEMO artspace, 3 Water St, Grafton, Auckland

All photographs will be auctioned via TradeMe from 1 December. All welcome to the closing event at Demo. Bring a device that you can use to make your TradeMe bids!