News from the Sun

Harry Culy, Justine Varga, Shaun Waugh

City Gallery Wellington

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.