Theo Macdonald reviews the updated New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa by Athol McCredie,
Published by Te Papa Press, 2025
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The Inevitable
Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson and Sam Norton.
PhotoForum re-publish Virginia Were’s essay which was first commissioned to accompany the exhibition The Inevitable Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson and Sam Norton at Two Rooms.
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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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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 invites submissions for a series of open calls.
1. PhotoForum Print Publications
2. Online Exhibitions
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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
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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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In 1994, PhotoForum presented the exhibition Open the Shutter: Auckland Photographers Now at the Auckland Museum. The work of 40 photographers was curated by Ron Brownson of the Auckland City Art Gallery.
A video produced by PhotoForum at the time focussed on the work of 16 photographers.
Produced and directed by Stu Sontier and Jon Carapiet for PhotoForum.
Filmed and edited by Nikki Wood, 1994.
Digitised and presented here as part of our 50th anniversary celebration
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Warisara Thomson
Published as PhotoForum #97
A response by Georgia Carr for PhotoForum
March 2024
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50 Years and 100 issues of PhotoForum, (maybe, depending on how you count them)
Former PhotoForum Director (2012-2022) Geoffrey Short runs the numbers.
February 2024
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Notes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 10: A case for more curators, The Simple Image, and Barry Clothier & John Turner’s Artides Gallery exhibition in 1965
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PhotoForum invites submissions for a series of open calls.
1. 50th Anniversary set of publications
2. Online Exhibitions
3. PhotoForum #101 and #102
The Open Call has been extended. Submissions now close on 8 November 2023.
We look forward to your photobook and online exhibition proposals.
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