Arts in Oxford Gallery, 68 Main St, Oxford, North Canterbury (45 mins from Christchurch Airport).

The Advertising & Illustrative Photographers Association (AIPA) has invited top commercial photographers and leading industry experts  to gather at Unitec in  Auckland for a weekend of inspiration and education.

Hear inspirational lectures by renowned advertising and editorial  photographers - including Michael Hall, Juliet Taylor, Charles Howells, Simon Devitt, Tim White, Diederik Van Heyningen, Jocelyn Carlin, David Read and Caleb Smith. Discover how they have achieved high levels of success and acclaim in  today’s incredibly competitive photographic market.

Attend informative presentations by some of New Zealand’s top creatives -  like globally recognised executive creative director Mike O’Sullivan,  multi-award winning magazine designer Jenny Nicholls, and renowned  digital media expert Alister Coyne.

IMAGE NATION gives New Zealand photographers, assistants and students an opportunity to gain a unique and invaluable insight into the minds of some of Australasia’s best professional photographers. In addition, attendees will obtain an immense amount of useful and relevant information about the advertising and editorial media industries - knowledge that can be used to achieve future success in the photographic arena.

When
Saturday, June 26 & Sunday, June 27
Where
Unitec Red Lecture Theatre, Carrington Road, Mount Albert, Auckland
Ticket Prices
General Admission - $225
AIPA and NZIPP Members - $162
Photographic Assistants - $135
Students - $90
AIPA Assistant Members - $81
AIPA Student Members - $54

Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. All prices include GST.

SECURE YOUR SEAT TODAY -  visit WWW.IMAGENATION.CO.NZ for booking details

ADMINISTRATION ENQUIRIES
Email: admin@aipa.org.nz
Phone/Fax: +64 9 410 5734

Snow White Gallery, Unitec - Mt Albert Campus                                                                                               Building One, Gate One, Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland

Exhibition: 23 June to 16 July 2010                                                                                                                     Gallery Hours 9am - 4pm                                                                                                                                     Opening: 22 June at 5pm

Photographers Eva Kozub and Vanessa Parker contemplate their lives by capturing moments, people, objects and other fragments of the everyday. These quiet images reflect the act of looking at oneself in the mirror and the self-analysis that follows.

Manipulated by the Human Hand is an exhibition of photographic works by Peter Evans, coming up from 2 - 23 July 2010 at McNamara Gallery, Whanganui

Manipulated by the Human Hand is an ongoing ecological study of our interaction with and transformation of the natural landscape of New Zealand as influenced by the dominant economic and anthropocentric ideologies prevalent in our contemporary culture.

The conflicts and affinities we have with the landscape are explored in this show of 12 works. Industry upon the landscape has enabled us to live in the comfortable lifestyles that we do. It is also a major contributing factor of anthropogenic environmental problems. Our relationship with industry and the landscape raises complex, critical issues in our modern society.

Manipulated by the Human Hand
2 - 23 July 2010
Reception with Peter Evans 5.30pm Friday 2nd July 
McNamara Gallery
190 Wicksteed Street
Whanganui 4500
New Zealand

Image: Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, Invercargill, 2009

Flier image (top): Homer Tunnel, Milford Sound, 2008

As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, the following two exhibitions by Jessie Casson and  Ava Seymour are currently running  at Lopdell House Gallery until 1st August 2010:

Champions: New Zealand Winners by Jessie Casson

This exhibition profiles winners and champions from the length and breadth of New Zealand. All the people included in the exhibition have won competitions at a high level, often nationally or internationally, sometimes setting world records. From jam-making to rodeo these are people with passion and determination.

Nocturne  by Ava Seymour

For Lopdell House Gallery Ava presents a new series of works developed during her summer residency in the studio next to Colin McCahon’s cottage in French Bay. Combining photoshop, collage and photography, Seymour’s images explore the subtleties of colour and shape and the relationships between form and line.

Lopdell House Gallery: Corner Titirangi & South Titirangi Rds, Titirangi, Waitakere City,                                                                 Hours: Daily from 10am- 4pm (except public holidays as listed on website)

‘No Flash Photography’, an exhibition by photographer Christine Szabados runs at Photospace Gallery until 6th July 2010.

Photospace Gallery: lst Floor, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington                                                                         Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 11am to 4pm, Mon - Tues by appointment

Image: Geri by Christine Szabados

[v]erge:  Opening at Satellite Gallery 25th May 2010

On Tuesday night, as part of the Auckland Photography Festival, [v]erge – a group show of photographers consisting of Jenny Tomlin, Hamish Macdonald and Richard Smallfield opened with their recent works at the Satellite Gallery. The opening was an exceedingly lively affair well attended by the hordes. Satellite gallery has been establishing itself as an alternative (yet highly professional) space for the emerging and the fringe arts which may not find other, more mainstream, dealer gallery spaces.

This show is a well conceived grouping of three bodies of work, all responding to the artists’ immediate surroundings and experiences, but each with very distinct personal takes and aesthetics on relationship to landscape. The images are expertly hung as separate groups so the viewer can be immersed in the vision of the each artist while moving along the gallery space.

Immersion is an apt description for the experience of each artist’s work. Their subtle and layered attentions to details only unravels with acutely focused attention by the viewer: Tomlin’s ordering of the seemingly chaotic cultures of nature. Macdonald’s lusciously romantic timeless tableaux bouncing off his texts, finally Smallfield’s meticulous attention to the formal cohesion of the pictorial space – made all the more fascinating for its digital origin of stitched multiple images masquerading as old vision of 2 ¼ square format camera.

Together, the exhibition offers a satisfying glance into the current state of the traditional languages of the photographic medium. Its ability ­(when executed by passionate expertise and sensibilities) to still be an effective carrier of personal insights and vision; to describe the surroundings and affect the viewers who are open to their narratives.

Highly recommended.

Comment by Haruhiko Sameshima                                                                                                           Images courtesy of Richard Smallfield

[v]erge continues until 12th June at Satellite Gallery. (Corner of St Benedict’s and Newton Road, Auckland CBD. Ph. (09) 307 416. The gallery is open Monday to Friday 11am to 5pm, and Saturdays 10-3.

Recently all 09/10 PhotoForum members were posted copies issues 4 and 5 of of the members only magazine, MoMento.

The topic of Issue 4 is self portraiture; it features Mark Leonard Watts, Jodi Keet and Jennifer Mason

Issue 5 is a reprint of the catalogue from the exhibition: Artificialia, Naturalia & Mirabilia, shown 3 - 20 June 2009 at Artstation Gallery, Auckland. It features work by Julie Downie, Heyes Johnson, Faye Norman and Haruhiko Sameshima.

They are both fantastic and they are now online to view as pdfs.

If you become a member for the 2010/2011 period you will receive the next three editions of MoMento, as well as at least one new issue of PhotoForum magazine…. and many other lovely benefits…

Artstation’s latest exhibition, Transition, invites the viewer into a world of change as portrayed through the eyes of four diverse photographers, from 2 to 19 June 2010.

Photographers Alice Ng, William Booth, Heejeong Min and Leigh Bell each put their unique stamp on this exhibition through a range of photography styles including portraiture, landscape and documentary.

Transition is part of ‘The Gravity Festival Circuit’, which links 10 photography exhibitions across central Auckland on Tuesday, 8 June between 6 to 9pm as part of the  Auckland Festival of Photography 2010.

If you love square format photos (Oh I do!), or really just photos of any proportions, then check out Square Magazine. They have their very first edition online and it features some lovely photographic work.

They are currently calling for submissions for edition three, check out their website for more details: www.squaremag.org