Legacy (portraits of the greats) Jon Carapiet Published by Rim Books, April 2024 32 pages, colour, 20.3 x 27.7 cm, soft cover ISBN 978-0-473-70755-2 RRP - $40 Book Launch: Saturday, 27 April, 2024 - 1.00pm Studio One Toi Tū 1, Ponsonby Rd, Auckland This set of unique AI portraits will be launched to coincide with the f-stop photo fair and zinefest. https://www.aucklandzinefest.com/ View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Each of these photographs is a still from a movie. A moment in time is captured from AI-reanimated sequences which have brought the subjects to life. Lega ..read more

Through Water Lara Gilks, Rich Thurston, Christina Little Twentysix 26 Constable Street, Wellington 17 - 28 April 2024 Opening Wednesday 17 April from 5pm View fullsize Lara Gilks View fullsize Rich Thurston View fullsize Christina Little Three local Pōneke artist photographers Lara Gilks, Rich Thurston and Christina Little combine their talents to present Through Water, an exhibition of captivating photographic artworks full of intrigue, presence, and beauty connected Through Water. Working in the medium of photography across a variety of subject matter the artists use water and light as t ..read more

Hei whakahamara Ans Westra {Suite} Ponsonby 189 Ponsonby Road, Auckland 15 Aril- 25 May 2024 Ans Westra, Saleyards, Lorneville, Southland, 1970 One year after her passing, Ans Westra's influence on the New Zealand art scene is stronger than ever. Renowned for her six-decade career as an iconic photographer, Westra amassed the most comprehensive visual documentation of life in Aotearoa.   {Suite} Gallery will showcase 35 new prints of black and white images from the early 1960s to the 1980s. Among the new photos are scenes from events at Ngāruawāhia, the Lorneville saleyards, a ..read more

Johnsonville in the 1960s - vintage prints John B. Turner Photospace Gallery 1st floor, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington 13 April - 4 May 2024 Opening Saturday 13 April, 11.30am to 2pm John B Turner is an editor, publisher, writer and educator in the field of photography, as well as a photographer in his own right, although he has unselfishly put most of his energy into promoting other photographers work. He was highly influential in the development of contemporary New Zealand photography from the late 1960s through to the 1980s, and, despite relocating to Beijing a decade ago, he remains close ..read more

f.stop Photo Fair Studio One Toi Tū 1 Ponsonby Road, Auckland Saturday, 27 April 2024, 12 - 6pm https://www.aucklandzinefest.com/events/f-stop-photo-fair A day of talks; activities; stalls selling photo zines and books, photo prints, cameras, film and photography equipment; and a photography exhibition with submissions from around the world.   We need your help to continue providing a year-round programme of online reviews, interviews, portfolios, videos and listings that is free for everyone to access. We’d also like to dream bigger with the services we offer to photographers and the v ..read more

Digital Mary Hutchinson Photospace Gallery 1st floor, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington 13 April - 4 May 2024   We need your help to continue providing a year-round programme of online reviews, interviews, portfolios, videos and listings that is free for everyone to access. We’d also like to dream bigger with the services we offer to photographers and the visual arts. We’ve partnered with Press Patron to give readers the opportunity to support PhotoForum Online. Every donation helps.      ..read more

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View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize A cool essay about Jenny’s work. Nullam ac condimentum felis, at tempor metus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Etiam a nulla sagittis, rutrum mauris at, facilisis leo. Nullam facilisis ante eu nisl pretium commodo. Aliquam eget tincidunt lorem. Nunc in turpis ante. Nam sed massa vel lectus pellentesque aliquet eleifend vitae lacus. Donec neque est, consequat sit amet erat vitae, volutpat vestibulum justo. In gravida ..read more

Just Looking Patrick Pound Melanie Roger Gallery 444 Karangahape Rd Newton, Auckland 03 – 20 April 2024 Opening Wednesday 3 April, 5.30-7.30pm All of the works in this exhibition refer to the idea of looking. From images of people looking up, to images of people looking down; from men on the telephone to women on the telephone. Then there’s a puzzle-box with a snapshot of to a person looking at a view mounted above a snap looking at a person in front of a view. There are collages of photographs of people seen from behind, sitting atop the backs of photographs. This exhibition is a collage of ..read more

VIEWSHAFT Allan McDonald Anna Miles Gallery 10/30 Upper Queen Street, Auckland 06 April - 02 May 2024 Opening and book launch Saturday 6 April 3-5pm Artist talk Saturday 13 April at 12pm Allan McDonald describes VIEWSHAFT as a geo-linguistic drift, from North to South, through the volcanic fields of Tāmaki Makaurau. The book and exhibition include photographs of mountains still to be seen and others that exist only via the photographs and words of those who felt a need to describe them at the time. These words and images come into play through the writings of geologists, Firth, Searle and Hay ..read more