News from the Sun
News from the Sun
Harry Culy, Justine Varga, Shaun Waugh
16 November 2019 -15 March 2020
The window, the horizon, and the still life are some of photography’s biggest clichés. Darkroom and Instagram famous, beloved by professionals and amateurs alike, they demand to be photographed. They have become ciphers for photography itself. News from the Sun features three photographers, who each explore one of these motifs. In each case, the favoured motif is abstracted, serialised, and transformed through formal processes and manipulations that push it far beyond the cliché.
Read the PhotoForum review by Deidra Sullivan
Update: in April 2020, City Gallery Wellington has collaborated with Bad News Books to publish a book of the exhibition, which will be available once New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown is lifted.
In the meantime, the gallery has made a PDF of the book available here.
Harry Culy Untitled Seascape 122, The Gap, Vaucluse, Australia, 2018
Justine Varga Overlay from Areola 2016–18
Shaun Waugh Still Life 2018-19