Welcome to Festival Zone for October 2013.
Installing the 'My Place' exhibition of 4 Auckland photographers work in China, Anita Jacobsen's work above.
Installing Chris Corson-Scott's work at Pingyao International Photography Festival 2013
Checking the level for Geoffrey Heath's work at PIP 2013. More photos here
11th annual Auckland Festival of Photography 2014
We are delighted to announce the next Auckland Festival of Photography will take place in 2014, we kick off 29 May to 20 June, with 3 weeks of key themed exhibitions, as well as our next Talking Culture Symposium, signature shows, events and projections, portfolio reviews, Festival Tuesday, Annual Artist Commission as well as our people's competition Nikon Auckland Photo Day and a extensive regional Fringe programme. Expressions of interest are now open, please contact our office on info.photo.festival@xtra.co.nz or phone us 09 307 7055, or get in touch via Facebook or Twitter. Dont forget to Like Us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Our programme closes for expressions of interest in late January 2014.
We look forward to delivering another world class Festival right here in Auckland region, building cultural tourism through our extensive international networks and promoting Auckland artists to our dedicated Festival audience here, and to some of the world's largest and best Festivals that the Asia Pacific has to offer. We are grateful to the Auckland Council for their increased support for our Festival which allows us to continue working with some exciting projects both here and internationally for 2014.
Asia Pacific Photoforum new members
After a highly successful annual meeting of the APP at the 2013 Pingyao International Photography Festival, the newly expanded network, Asia Pacific Photoforum Festival Directors had a group photograph.
From left to right on back row is Ryan Libre, Director, Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival, Thailand, Moshe Rosenzveig, Director, Head On Festival, Sydney, Australia, Alasdair Foster, APP Ambassador, next row Mr Zhang Guotian, Chief Artistic Director Pingyao, China, Julia Durkin, Festival Director, Auckland Festival of Photography, NZ, Jeff Moorfoot, Director, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia and Cristina Chavarria, Artistic Director, Guatephoto, Guatemala and front row is Amy Liu, International Director Pingyao, China and Gilma Suarez Rivera, Director, Fotografica Bogota, Colombia.
Absent friends include - Maurice Ortega, Queensland Festival of Photography, Australia, Francoise Callier Programme Director and Jessica Lim, Asia Co-ordinator, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia and Shahidul Alam, Director, Chobi Mela Festival, Bangladesh.
And the next Festival to start from the Asia Pacific Photoforum is Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia, starting 23rd November to 30th November. They have just announced a preview of what's on, including their guest curators for slideshows, Shahidul Alam, Chobi Mela and Jean Francois-Leroy, France.
One of the purposes of the Auckland Festival of Photography is to "Strengthen regional identity and assisting the development of cultural tourism in the region". This professional photography network has a collective engaged audience in excess of half a million people across the member Festivals.
Auckland Photo Blog
The Auckland Photo Blog has been operating as a unique Auckland online photo library created by the people of the region since 2006, we hold over 6500 images online for viewing and reference for the region. It is a community space and one which we enjoy providing to Aucklanders free of charge. Thanks to everyone who volunteered for the next few months to be a 'Monthly Blog selector'. This month's selection was done by Tara Sutherland, thanks to her for her time, and congratulations to Hayley Theyers for this photo below.
Auckland Photo Blog - Open theme - September Photo of the Month. Taken by Hayley Theyers, congratulations for her photo "Boy in Sea".
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