History

50 Years and 100 issues of PhotoForum, (maybe, depending on how you count them)

Former PhotoForum Director (2012-2022) Geoffrey Short runs the numbers.

February 2024

Our 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.

As part of our ongoing project of digitising the PhotoForum magazine archive, today we release the digital version of the PhotoForum pre-cursor magazine New Zealand Photography Issue 6, July/August 1971. Earlier issues, including those with the original title Photographic Art & History, are also now available in PDF format on our publications page.

New Zealand Photography continued until issue 17 in 1973, evolving to become Photo-Forum magazine in 1974.

As part of our ongoing project of digitising the PhotoForum magazine archive, today we release the digital version of the PhotoForum pre-cursor magazine New Zealand Photography Issue 5, May/June 1971. This represented a name change from the previous Photographic Art & History Issues 1- 4, which are also now available on our publications page.
New Zealand Photography continued until issue 17 in 1973, then evolved to become Photo-Forum magazine in 1974.

As part of our ongoing project of digitising the PhotoForum magazine archive, today we release the digital version of the PhotoForum pre-cursor magazine Photographic Art & History Issue 4, March 1971

Issues 1 to 3 are also now available on our publications page

PhotoForum’s history extends back to 1970, so there are a lot of stories to be told. In this brief overview current director Geoffrey Short shares his take on PhotoForum’s activities from 1973 to 2021.

A nearly complete list of PhotoForum exhibitions, 1975 – 2020 (with posters)

PhotoForum/Wellington: Working Independently
Essay by Athol McCredie

This essay is an extracted chapter from the book PhotoForum at 40: Counterculture, Clusters, and Debate in New Zealand by Nina Seja, (Rim Books, 2014). We have added extra illustrations of exhibition posters that were recently gifted to us.