Photographer Max Oettli reflects on a selection of his photographs with Ron Brownson, Senior Curator of New Zealand Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Reprinted from Art Toi Magazine, November 2021
Max Oettli: Visible Evidence is showing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 18 Dec 2021 - 18 Sep 2022
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 1: Introduction
“as far as our pictorial history is concerned, it seems that the most senior officials charged with the oversight of pictorial heritage appear to be asleep at the wheel”.
Read MoreCurrently featured in the 2022 Auckland Festival of Photography online programme.
With: Peter Black, David Cook, Harry Culy, Chevron Hassett, Mary Macpherson, Jane Wilcox
PhotoForum Online exhibition: October 2021
Curated by Mary Macpherson and Harry Culy
Essay: The Marzipan Tree, by Mark Amery for PhotoForum
(Image: Peter Black from Blacksville)
Report by Stuart Sontier and John B Turner for PhotoForum Online, March 2022
Webb’s auction house in Auckland recently put up two scans of early 20th Century glass plate negatives as NFTs for an online auction. Their first foray into this environment netted $51,250 for an image of the artist posing at his easel and $76,250 for the view of him surrounded by his painting in his studio. The auction estimates were between $5,000 - $8,000 each.
Read MoreExhibition:
Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira
7 April 2022 – March 2023
Book:
Published by Auckland University Press with Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira, edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins
PhotoForum Online is pleased to publish this essay by Shaun Higgins, Curator Pictorial, Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Read MoreThe Christchurch Documentary Project
Article by Tim J Veling and Glenn Busch for PhotoForum, January 2019
Photograph: Tim J Veling
Read MoreIn response to the current exhibition of The Moral Drift at Tauranga Art Gallery, we re-present Fraser Chrichton’s PhotoForum Featured Portfolio from January 2021
The Moral Drift
Fraser Crichton
Essay by Elizabeth Stanley for PhotoForum, 21 January 2021
Read MoreWith: Peter Black, David Cook, Harry Culy, Chevron Hassett, Mary Macpherson, Jane Wilcox
PhotoForum Online exhibition: October 2021
Curated by Mary Macpherson and Harry Culy
Essay: The Marzipan Tree, by Mark Amery for PhotoForum
Read MoreHana Pera Aoake & Morgan Godfery
Essay published by The Spinoff, 14 August 2021
John Miller has been a constant and reassuring presence at kaupapa Māori movements for 50 years. By bearing witness to our most pivotal moments, his lens has become one of the most powerful tools for activism in our history, write Hana Pera Aoake and Morgan Godfery.
Read MoreThe Boundedness of Familiar Strangers – Charles McKenzie’s People of Parnell
March 2021
An essay by Nina Seja for PhotoForum
Read MoreEssay by John B Turner for PhotoForum, 20 February 2021
Read MoreAn Unhurried Bounty – Jenny Tomlin’s Solargrams
Featured Portfolio, 2 November 2020
Essay by Nina Seja for PhotoForum
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