Welcome to Festival Zone for the Nikon Auckland Photo Day build up for June 2012. After a successful opening weekend and great numbers attending our Festival Tuesday Circuit, this 9th annual Auckland Festival of Photography is off to a fabulous start. Dont forget all our exhibitions are FREE so come along to the following weekend exhibitions:
Mayor Brown Warms Up For Nikon Auckland Photo Day
Almost the weekend again so dont forget to plan for Saturday 9th June with our public participation competition, Nikon Auckland Photo Day. Go out or stay home with your camera, your friends, families and groups and show us your Auckland on Saturday. Win a great package of prizes, 1st prize -
A Nikon D7000 Kit with 18-105 lens -
- 16.2 megapixels
- DX-format CMOS image sensor & EXPEED2 processing engine
- AF sensor module with 39 effective focus points
- D-Movie for recording and editing of full HD movies
- 4Gb SD memory card.
- And watch a great BBC documentary series called "The Genius of Photography" with your friends and family. Check terms and conditions here. And keep an eye out for the shortlisted entries on the website and take part in our People's Choice vote.
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James K Lowe annual fine arts commission
This wonderful emerging talent has been the recipient of this year's Commission from the Auckland Festival of Photography Trust, we are delighted to support James work and cant wait to see the exhibition which opens at Aotea Gallery, Aotea Center from Saturday 9th June. James K Lowe is a 23-year-old graduate from Elam School of Fine Arts. James is relatively new to the art of photography, having begun experimenting while at Elam, but already he demonstrates a sophisticated style and very particular point of view. His meticulous photography is influenced by existentialist philosophy and also heavily informed by film - his images carefully constructed to create a heightened naturalism. His photographs suggest captured moments within a larger narrative, a larger unknown which happens before and after the image. Congratulations to James for his continuing series of portraits in this exhibition in Festival 2012.
Talking Culture Sunday Series at Auckland Art Gallery
Presented by Lowepro. Sunday 10th June, 1pm hear about 1day6cities, with photographers Daniel Alexander and Patrick Dalton talks about this international timelapse project and at 3pm Getty Image photographers Hannah Johnston and Phil Walter discuss sports photography and the upcoming London Olympics. More here.
Auckland Council news
In response to the article on Stuff - Councillor Casey states the obvious about wasting ratepayer money on RWC countdown clock - our Festival has only just heard we have no allocated Council funding at all from 1st July 2012 despite asking since last November for a reasonable amount.......and to correct this Stuff article we have not been given $200,000 in contestable funding.
We ask that you let your local Councillor know of your dissatisfaction at us currently having no funding from 1st July. See here for the emails of your local Councillors and email in support of your Auckland Festival of Photography continuing after 1st July.
Exhibitions this weekend:
Within the regional roll-out of this opening weekends Festival programme, loads of local signature and fringe exhibitions, talks, workshops in your neighbourhood galleries & community spaces in Titirangi, Manurewa, Orewa, Avondale, Waiheke, Piha and plenty in central suburb areas (plus see Festival Calendar for all shows):
John Miller - Flags on at Nathan Homestead from 7th June
| Mods and Rockers | Salvation Kitchen | 6 June | |
| John Miller - Photographer | Nathan Homestead | 7 June | |
| View to Another World | Estuary Arts Centre | 7 June | |
| Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards | Vero Centre | 7 June | |
| This and That | Brooklyn Bar | 8 June | |
| Island Influences | TOI Gallery | 8 June | |
| POV - Connections | Upstairs Gallery | 8 June | |
| Annual Fine Arts Commission - James K Lowe | Aotea Gallery | 9 June | |
| View - Beatrice Carlson | Letham Gallery | 9 June | |
| Natural Light | Satellite Gallery | 9 June | |
| Nikon Auckland Photo Day 2012 | Auckland Region | 9 June | |
| Return of the Light | West Coast Gallery | 9 June |
Subscriber Prize Draw sponsored by D Photo & Apix
Each month til end of 2012 Festival, one lucky subscriber to Festival Zone will be selected to win a free subscription to the D Photo Magazine worth $39.95 and plus a mystery product prize to the value of $50 from Apix each month. Tell your friends, family and networks to subscribe to Festival Zone to be in to win this last month. See here to subscribe. May's lucky winner was Alison D'Agostino.
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