Photobook/NZ
Photobook/NZ is New Zealand’s national photobook festival, celebrating small press photobooks and connecting photographers, publishers and their book-loving audiences.
A biennial Wellington event first staged in 2016, Photobook/NZ 2024 is a partnership between Massey University, Te Papa and PhotoForum Inc. and is sponsored by the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Wakefields Digital, The Wellington City Council, and Splendid Photo.
For more information see the Photobook/NZ website here.
Photobook/NZ 2024 is scheduled for 8 - 11 August and will :
showcase exceptional photobook makers such as Morganna Magee (Australia) and Liss Fenwick (Australia, whose book was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards)
run short workshops with leading publishers such as Rim Books, Bad News Books and Tall Poppy Press and our international guests, to build your expertise about making books and publishing
hold a very popular book fair showcasing photobooks from around Aotearoa and overseas. This is a rare opportunity to browse and collect the work of independent artists. All sales money goes directly to the creators
hold unique exhibitions of work from overseas and New Zealand practitioners. This year, includes the return of the Mā Wai Rā team presenting new development in Māori photobook making, among other displays.
Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha, Mariama Hunia, Michael Mahne Lamb, Maximilian Scott Murray, Deme Te Atawhai Scott, Maija Stephens, Tessa Williams
Curated by Michael Mahne Lamb and Tessa Williams
Photospace Gallery
37 Courtenay Place, Wellington
18 August – 3 September 2022
Artist talk and afternoon tea Sunday 21 August: 2 - 4pm
A Photobook/NZ 2022 satellite event
Simon L Wong & Chyna Lily
Published by Bad News Books, September 2022
Preview at Photobook/NZ August 20th from 10-3pm (limited copies)
Launch night: September 15th evening (tbc), at Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington.
Te Papa Tongarewa Soundings Theatre
19 August 2022, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Register here
A Photobook/NZ 2022 satellite event
Peter Peryer
Hamish McKay
16 Jessie Street
Wellington
13 August – 3 September 2022
Open 11am Saturday 13 August
A Photobook/NZ 2022 satellite event
Edith Amituanai, Janet Bayly, L. Budd, Joyce Campbell, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Anne Noble, Peter Peryer, Yvonne Todd
Webb’s Wellington
23 Marion Street, Te Aro, Wellington
10–21 August 2022
Talk, Sunday 21 August at 11am, presented in conjunction with Photobook/NZ, Robert Leonard will ask Howard Greive about collecting with an SMP
A Photobook/NZ 2022 satellite event
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, level 5
19 August – 18 October 2022
Launching 19 August at Photobook/NZ
Joyce Campbell
Bartley & Company Art
Level 2/22 Garrett Street, Te Aro, Wellington
4 August - 27 August 2022
Talk with Joyce Campbell, David Maskill and Geoffrey Batchen, Sunday 21 August, 9.45am
Form Gallery
Whitecliffe College
67 Symonds Street, Auckland
29 July - 1 August 2020
Opening Wednesday 29 July, 5.30pm - 7.30 pm
On the 6th, 7th and 8th of March, the Photobook/NZ 2020 festival was held in Wellington.
Looking back now, when we are all in Covid-19 Alert Level 4 isolation, it seems astonishing that only three weeks ago it seemed perfectly normal to have a gathering of hundreds of people, and presentations by overseas guests.
6 - 8 March, 2020
2020 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture – Cristina de Middel (Spain)
Friday 6 March, 6.30 pm - 7.45pm
Photobook/NZ Opening and Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards
Friday 6 March 8 - 9pm, Level 2, Te Papa, Wellington
Book Fair
Saturday 7 March, 10am - 3pm
Talks and Discussions
Saturday 7 March, 2pm - 5pm
Sunday 8 March, 10am - 5pm
College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington
Masterclass 2020
4 & 5 March 2020
College of Creative Arts
Massey University
Wellington
Part of Photobook/NZ 2020
Photographer Christine McFetridge writes about her experience of the recent Photobook/NZ festival.
The second Photobook/NZ Festival was held in Wellington 7 - 11 March 2018. Geoffrey Short was there and took these photos.
A report on the inaugural Photobook/NZ book fair
Published by Momento Pro
May 30, 2016
Photobook New Zealand 2016
Massey University, Wellington
11 - 13 March, 2016
Shelley Jacobson is an exhibitor and speaker at Photobook New Zealand
Interview by Lara Wyatt for D-Photo, 18 February 2016
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
19 and 20 August 2022
Opening and launch of Worlds within exhibition – Friday 19 August, 6.30 – 7.45pm, Te Papa, L4.