2023 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture & Symposium
2023 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture
Lissa Mitchell Curator historical and documentary photography
Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa
Thursday 8 June
7pm, doors open 6.45pm
Free Entry Please register to reserve a seat
Symposium: Photographic practice
Keynote address and panel discussions
Ane Tonga, Edith Amituanai, Natalie Robertson, Conor Clarke, Kate van der Drift, Jo Bragg, Sage Rossie, Virginia Woods-Jack (Women in Photography NZ/AU), Victoria Baldwin (Women's Work), Samson Dell & Belinda Whitta (The Handmade Darkoom), and more.
Saturday 10 June, 10.30am – 4.30pm, registration from 10am
Charges Apply Registration is essential
Location: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street Wellington
Shifting the focus to contemporary photographic practice by women, irawhiti takatāpui, people who are non-binary and on the trans or genderqueer spectrum in Aotearoa. With a keynote address and panel discussions, we are bringing together a diverse collection of people from throughout the country to discuss what is happening in current photographic practice, and what future we would like to share.
George Crombie: Kate Crombie using a Kodak Autographic folding camera, taking a photograph of her sisters Elsie (left) and Margaret at Pūrākaunui, near Dunedin, about 1912.
Gelatin dry plate glass negative. Te Papa (B.047398).
Massey University – Whiti o Rehua School of Art in partnership with Te Papa Tongarewa is pleased to present this year’s Peter Turner Memorial Lecture and symposium.
Through Shaded Glass
The publication of Through Shaded Glass – women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1970 (Te Papa Press) represents a significant milestone in foregrounding the involvement and photographic work of over 190 women makers of photography in Aotearoa prior to 1960. It draws on years of primary research locating names, photographs and researching lives and it explores photographic practice where women have made strong contributions and which have been sidelined or overlooked in this country’s photographic histories to date such as collaborative working practices, photographers and the Second World War in New Zealand, non-binary practices, and the involvement of Māori women in making early photography here. It is also ongoing research aimed at enriching and developing the public record and connecting histories of women’s involvement in photography with contemporary photographic practice and society now and in the future.
In the lecture Lissa Mitchell will share the stories of some of the photographers featured in the book, and discuss decisions made in distilling her detailed research into the publication.
Note for PhotoForum veterans: if you think the wonderful George Crombie photo looks familiar, it was used on a poster for Photo-Forum’s annual group exhibition in 1978.
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