Mark Adams - A survey - He kohinga whakaahua
Mark Adams - A survey - He kohinga whakaahua
Mark Adams and Sarah Farrar
Published by Massey University Press, April 2025
Hard cover, 360 pages
ISBN: 9781991309013
Mark Adams is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost photographers. His focus on Samoan tatau, Māori–Pākehā interactions in Rotorua, carved meeting houses, locations of significance for Ngāi Tahu in Te Waipounamu, and Captain James Cook’s landing sites reflect his deep engagement with our postcolonial and Pacific histories.
This first-ever comprehensive survey of his work honours one of our most distinguished — and continually compelling — photographers.
It includes photographs taken across the Pacific, the United Kingdom and Europe that explore the migration of artistic and cultural practices across the globe, and examine the role of museums, and photography itself, in this dynamic and ongoing cross-cultural exchange.
Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Mark Adams interviewed by Sapeer Mayron for The Sunday Star Times
Reviewed by Linda Herrick for The Listener (paywall)
Reviewed by NZ Booklovers
Mark Adams talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz