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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!

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Open the Shutter - Video interviews

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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Through Shaded Glass

Lissa Mitchell

Through Shaded Glass. Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960

Published by Te Papa Press, June 2023

Written by Lissa Mitchell, Curator Historical Photography at Te Papa, Through Shaded Glass takes the reader on a journey through the backrooms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographic studios, into private homes, out onto the street and up into the mountains, and looks at the range of photographic practices in which women were involved. Through superb images and fascinating individual stories, it brings an important group of photographers into the light.

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