Welcome to Festival Zone for March 2013.
Harvey Benge; Auckland, May 2012 - from Recent Auckland Photography at Northart
We are about 4 weeks away from launching the 10th edition of the annual Auckland Festival of Photography in June and we are delighted to announce some preview highlights for this year, our introduction for the first time of Portfolio Reviews by a panel of experts - top level camera artists, curators - Ron Brownson, Harvey Benge, Marie Shannon and Dieneke Jensen. Portfolio Reviews 2013 will be held on the second Saturday of the Festival, and we recommend early booking for this FREE opportunity. From mid April details on how to book in will be in our programme.
Some highlights for the 2013 signature exhibition artists are - Gil Hanly (NZ), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Allan McDonald (NZ), MikiNobu Komatsu (Japan), Anthony Goicolea (USA), Daniel Crooks (NZ Melbourne based), Edith Amituanai (NZ), Chris McLennan (NZ) plus a select Recent Auckland Photography survey exhibition and publication (image above) at Northart curated by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling. Plus international work from Magnum's Chris Steele-Perkins (UK), China's Pingyao International Photography Festival by Chan Haiwen (Shanghai), as well as a range of independant artist shows - Paul Batt (Aus), Fernando Montiel-Klimt (Mexico).
Late Addition to 2013 Programme
We are delighted to announce this year's Festival will host a late addition from New York. Jim Ramer, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Parsons The New School of Design will be visiting the Festival to accompany "RE: Conceptualizing Vision" at Elam Projectspace Gallery. This is an exhibition featuring artists, including Jim, from the Center for Photographic Media and Culture at Parsons. Thanks to Elam Projectspace for their support of this unique opportunity.
Auckland Photo Blog - March - new theme is open
February Photo of The Month
Colin Lunt; Oh ***! At the Live More Awesome World's Biggest Slide Fundraiser. Franklin, South Auckland.
The Photo of the Month for February is above. Send in your new year photo's here.
Other News
Peter Evans new exhibition Zealandia: Views from the Peak? is on at McNamara Gallery in Wanganui until 23 March, then goes to Stratford during May. See more here.
Robert George's photographic documentation of the artist project by Tiffany Singh shows in "Fly Me Up To Where You Are - Te Waharoa" at Artstation until 24 March.
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