Welcome to Festival Zone for January 2014. We wish all of our stakeholders, photographers, galleries, curators, funders, sponsors and audience a Happy New Year.
Cambodian Monk - Water by Chris Rainier USA (courtesy of C Rainier)
Chris Rainier - Talking Culture Symposium
We are delighted to announce that Chris Rainier (USA), leading documentary photographer, will be attending the Auckland Festival of Photography in 2014.
Chris is our keynote presenter and will be part of the annual Talking Culture Symposium which will focus on the use of photography and new technologies to document, preserve and empower indigenous cultures over the opening weekend of the 2014 Festival. Talking Culture Symposium and series is sponsored by HP, our technology partner.
Amongst many professional accolades, including National Geographic Society Fellow, he is also the director of the Last Mile Technology Program, which supports underrepresented and indigenous cultures with modern social media, computers, cameras, and video equipment. Empowering them to tell their own cultural stories and share their traditional knowledge to find global solutions to the pressing issues on the planet in the 21st Century. In addition he is creating a global digital archive of the worlds most endangered languages and cultural knowledge.
Rainier has completed photographic projects for the United Nations, UNESCO, Amnesty International, Conservation International, the Smithsonian Institution, Time Magazine, the New York Times, LIFE Magazine, and the National Geographic Society. Rainier has photographed global culture , conflict, famine, and war in such places as: Somalia, Sarajevo/Bosnia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Iraq for TIME Magazine, - and for NPR Radio.
He lectures and teaches seminars & workshops throughout the world on using modern technology to preserve ancient cultural traditions.
We will have more exciting 2014 Festival news in early February including the announcement of our shortlist for the Annual Fine Arts Commission by Sacred Hill, plus more on our key international exhibitions coming to Auckland in 2014.
Memory theme - Japanese exhibitions 2014
"Tatsumi Orimoto’s moving video work is a very personal investigation into dementia, its impact and other issues relating to ageing". - Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
Tatsumi Orimoto (Japan) is a perfomance artist whose work Art-Mama, features himself and his ageing mother who suffers from alzheimers. In agreement with the artist the Auckland Festival of Photography is showing his video works exclusively as part of our key themed series of "Memory" exhibitions in June 2014. One of the performance works to be screened at the Auckland Festival of Photography 2014, "Beethoven Mama", follows its showing at the Mori Art Museum in Japan, and Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Australia.
TATSUMI ORIMOTO Event Photo "BEETHOVEN-MAMA” - Kawasaki-city, JAPAN.
Donations towards the Auckland Festival of Photography 2014
We are a registered charitable trust that develops and grows with the support of grants, sponsors and donations. We want to keep the Festival free to the public and open to participation by everyone, so we are seeking donations to support the 2014 Festival - all donations are tax deductable, donate now here - any amount from each of you will help us heaps!
Auckland Photo Blog
December's Photo of The Month selection was by Lynn Clayton, APSNZ, EFIAP. Thanks Lynn for your time, and congratulations to Debby Tweed for her photo of Westhaven Marina. Lynn says "I love the softness in the reflection, the serenity and the summer feeling".
The Auckland Photo Blog is a unique Auckland online photo library. We hold over 7800 images online for viewing and reference. All photographs are of the Auckland region. We are the only dedicated Auckland photography blog. It is a online cultural community space and one which we enjoy providing to Aucklanders free of charge. January 2014 is an open theme. Send in up to 9 entries per photographer each month.
Other News
AND IN ZURICH.....
.... Photo14, last week featured an Auckland contribution to the international festival projections that ran as part of Photo14. A selection of images from Auckland artists Chris Corson-Scott, Anita Jacobsen, Geoffrey Heath and Vicky Thomas were on show representing the Auckland Festival Of Photography.
Robin Morrison - A Decade of Days is on at Auckland Museum until May - "Robin Morrison (1944-1993) was one of New Zealand’s most celebrated photojournalists. His striking, unpretentious images allowed us to see ourselves, and our way of life, as if for the first time." Free entry.
10th China International Press Photo - CHIPP is calling for entries from around the world. Photographers can send photos for Press work published in the last year. Entries close on 15 February 2014. The competition is organised by the Photojournalists Society of China. Last competition saw 30,000 entries from worldwide media professionals in 2013.
You can either go to the http://www.chipp.cn/ to find more details enter the contest (preferred) or send your entries to the following email address: upload@chipp.cn if you encounter any problem in getting through the process via the website. Lets show New Zealand photographers at their best!
"The motto of the CHIPP is PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT. The photos submitted are encouraged to demonstrate human achievements or their fighting for peace, to reflect harmony or conflicts, change or progress, as well as to boost for the better comprehending of human’s life condition, emotion, willpower and strength".
More on this next month including the announcement of the New Zealand judge for this international contest.
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