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 MoreMurray Cammick
Photospace Gallery
37 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington
9 April - 28 May 2022
Opening: Friday 8 April, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Ziggy Bond, Christine Jeffs, Kim Lu, Timothy Mackrell, Saynab Muse, Yvonne Shaw, Christopher Young
The Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead
72 Hillsborough Rd, Auckland
7 April - 29 May 2022
Opening Night: Wednesday 4 May, 6-8pm
Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography
Read MoreOur ongoing scanning project, publishing full digital versions of PhotoForum publications from 50 years ago, sees issues 7, 8 and 9 of the PhotoForum pre-cursor magazine New Zealand Photography now available in PDF format.
Read MoreMarti Friedlander, Jessicoco Hansell, Taloi Havini, Lonnie Hutchinson, Ioane Ioane, Sione Monū, Molly Rangiwai-McHale & Luisa Tora, Suzanne Tamaki, Latai Taumoepeau, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kalisolaite ’Uhila
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
26 March - 31 July 2022
Read MoreChris Charteris, Chris Corson-Scott, Paul Mclachlan
Milford Galleries Dunedin
18 Dowling Street, Dunedin
14 March - 11 April 2022
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 MoreJonathan Kay
Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington
24 March – 23 April 2022
Artist talk: 2pm, Saturday 26 March
Drinks: 3 – 5pm, Saturday 26 March
Luca Franco Macioce’s The Bridge and David Cook’s Jellicoe & Bledisloe are the latest books to be made available through the PhotoForum publications programme (published as PhotoForum #95 and #96 respectively)
Read MoreChevron Hassett
Govett Brewster Art Gallery
42 Queen Street, New Plymouth
5 March - 19 June 2022
Read MoreQiane Matata-Sipu
ISBN: 9780473584313
Published November 2021
265mm x 205mm
344 pages, 120gsm Woodfree FSC stock
RRP $65
Reviewed by Siena Yates for KeteBooks
Read MoreThe Christchurch Documentary Project
Article by Tim J Veling and Glenn Busch for PhotoForum, January 2019
Photograph: Tim J Veling
Read MoreHany Armanious, Caryline Boreham, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Brett Graham + Rachael Rakena, Emil McAvoy, Joe Merrell, Peter Stichbury, Ronnie Van Hout
The Dowse Art Museum
45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt
12 March – 14 August 2022
Read MoreTreasures for the Rising Generation : The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923
Edited by Wayne Ngata, Arapata Hakiwai, Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmond, Monty Soutar, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg, John Niko Maihi, Sandra Kahu Nepia, Te Wheturere Poope Gray, Te Aroha McDonnell and Natalie Robertson
Published by Te Papa Press, November 2021
Reviewed by Kennedy Warne for Kete Books
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