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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.
Luke Foley-Martin & Ben Lowe
Essay by Theo Macdonald for PhotoForum
January 2025
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Lara Gilks
Design by Kyra Jensen, Text by Amy Stewart
Published by Lara Gilks and Murex Studio, March 2025
190x200mm, 82 pages
Section-sewn and foiled hardcover with inset photograph
Edition of 50
Book launch 29 August
Rice Pudding Gallery, Wellington
Ann Shelton
Jhana Millers Gallery
Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street, Te Aro
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington
12 June - 5 July 2025
Artist talk and book signing 4pm on Thursday 12 June
Online Auction including photographic work by Marti Friedlander, Shirley Grace, Paul Johns, Mark Kimber, Fiona Pardington, Rachael Rakena, Rosanna Raymond, Jono Rotman, Marie Shannon, Roberta Thornley, Yvonne Todd
Webbs
Online Auction 9 - 23 June 2025
Auckland Launch Tuesday 17 June, 6 - 8pm
33a Normanby Rd, Mt Eden
Including cover art and photo essay by Tia Ranginui
Published by Otago University Press, May 2025
160 x 120mm, Paperback
208 pages
Kathryn McCool
Published by Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2023
96 pages, 18.5 x 22.5 cm, section-sewn hardcover,
Regular edition price: AU$54.00
Special Edition with print: AU$192.00
Live Auction including photographic works by Murray Hedwig, Frank Hoffman, Anne Noble, Peter Peryer, Geoffrey Short, Richard Wotton
Art & Object
3 Abbey Street, Newton, Auckland
17th June 2025, 6:00pm
Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa)
23 Grenville Street, Levin
21st June – 2nd July 2025
Opening Saturday 21 June from 3pm
1-6pm or outside of these times by appointment
PHOTOFORUM PUBLICATIONS Paper publications supported by PhotoForum member subscriptions
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