Night Writing

Conor Clarke

Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland

23 May - 28 June 2025

Opening  Thursday 22 May 5.30 - 7.30 pm 

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Conor Clarke's new moving image presentation Night Writing was created in collaboration with conservationist Ted Howard. It combines thermal imagery of the endangered Kaikōura tītī (Hutton’s Shearwater) in nocturnal flight, with questions and thoughts as to why these ancient seabirds nest and breed so high above the sea, how they find their way in the dark, why they continue to return here despite the growing difficulty and risk, what her relationship with them was, is and is supposed to be, and the ethics of conservation work and lens-based practice.