Theo Macdonald reviews the updated New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa by Athol McCredie,

Published by Te Papa Press, 2025

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.

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.

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

PhotoForum invites submissions for a series of open calls.

1. PhotoForum Print Publications

2. Online Exhibitions

PhotoForum re-publish Emil McAvoy’s essay Wander and Remain Wild, Mickey Smith’s Domesticated which was first commissioned to accompany Smith’s exhibition Domesticated at Sanderson Contemporary.

John B. Turner

Artor Contemporary 
12 Fitzroy Street, Ponsonby, Auckland

11 December 2024 - 30 January 2025

Opening 6.00pm, Wednesday 11 December

Galia Amsel, Stella Brennan, Chris Corson-Scott, Phil Dadson, Jennifer French, Brendon Leung, Julia Morison, Kazu Nakagawa, Marie Shannon

Trish Clark Gallery
142 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland

31 May – 6 July 2024

Reviewed by John Hurrell for EyeContact 8 June 2024

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.

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.

Currently featured in the 2022 Auckland Festival of Photography online programme.

With: Peter Black, David Cook, Harry Culy, Chevron Hassett, Mary Macpherson, Jane Wilcox

PhotoForum Online exhibition: October 2021

Curated by Mary Macpherson and Harry Culy

Essay: The Marzipan Tree, by Mark Amery for PhotoForum

(Image: Peter Black from Blacksville)

The Christchurch Documentary Project

Article by Tim J Veling and Glenn Busch for PhotoForum, January 2019

Photograph: Tim J Veling

In response to the current exhibition of The Moral Drift at Tauranga Art Gallery, we re-present Fraser Chrichton’s PhotoForum Featured Portfolio from January 2021

The Moral Drift

Fraser Crichton

Essay by Elizabeth Stanley for PhotoForum, 21 January 2021

With: Peter Black, David Cook, Harry Culy, Chevron Hassett, Mary Macpherson, Jane Wilcox

PhotoForum Online exhibition: October 2021

Curated by Mary Macpherson and Harry Culy

Essay: The Marzipan Tree, by Mark Amery for PhotoForum

I can’t talk underwater

Chris Price & Bruce Foster

Reviewed by Michael Steven for PhotoForum, September 2021

Jon Carapiet, Haru Sameshima, Stu Sontier talk about creating the recent photobook “. . . . and then there were none” published by Rim Books, with photographs by Harvey Benge, Jon Carapiet, Haru Sameshima, Stu Sontier, text by Lloyd Jones.
Video made by Tony Nyberg for PhotoForum Online with support from Creative New Zealand.

Video conversation

July 2021

Hans Weston talks with Robin Hammond

The Near Future

Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch

12 June – 28 August 2021

Reviewed by Melanie Oliver for PhotoForum

Jane Zusters: Te Karoro Karoro: A Place Called Home: The Red Zone Clearances: Christchurch/Ōtautahi

Pah Homestead
14 April – 30 May 2021

Various Artists: Lockdown - Auckland Photo Blog

Queens Wharf fence
28 May – 31 July 2021

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Reviewed by Nina Seja for PhotoForum

Sites and Settings

Kate Woods
Northart
1 June – 27 June 2022

Time’s Strange Tissue

Sue Jowsey, Len Gillman and Andrew Denton
Nga Wai Hono: WZ Building, AUT
2 June – 8 June 2022

Reviewed by Andrew Clark for PhotoForum

Auckland Festival of Photography exhibitions

Pouwātū: Active Presence:

John Miller and Elisapeta Heta

Objectspace

9 Mar–30 May 2021

Reviewed by Arihia Latham for PhotoForum

Curated by Yvonne Todd

Featuring: Marie Blampain, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Melrose, Christina Pataialii, Meg Porteous, Cass Power, John Tiger Shen, Yvonne Todd, Susan Wiggins

McLeavey Gallery

29 May – 19 June 2021

Reviewed by Ish Doney for PhotoForum

Andy Spain talks with Lissa Mitchell of Te Papa and Virginia Woods-Jack, artist and curator

Historical and contemporary women photographers

Zoom conversation, May 2021

(Image, Young woman, 1900-1905, Christchurch, by Florence Craig. Te Papa)

Spare Room, Pastel Prick and related works

Interview by Serena Bentley for PhotoForum

On the Line
Alan McFetridge
Sue Here Books (2019)

The Holding
Allan McDonald
Rim Books (2020)

Reviewed by Michael Steven for PhotoForum

Featured Portfolio, April 2021

A quiet future - response by Arihia Latham for PhotoForum

The Boundedness of Familiar Strangers – Charles McKenzie’s People of Parnell

March 2021

An essay by Nina Seja for PhotoForum

Peter Black: Part of the Landscape

Video of Peter Black’s social landscape work

by Hans Weston

The New Sun

11 February – 13 March 2021

Jhana Millers, Wellington

Reviewed by Mary-Jane Duffy for PhotoForum