Welcome to our April Festival Zone for the announcement of the 2015 Auckland Festival of Photography programme.
Auckland Festival of Photography 2015 full programme is now available online and printed copies will be at venues, libraries and community spaces soon.
Festival Message 2015
This year the Auckland Festival of Photography is very proud to present its 12th edition.
At the heart of the Festival programme, we are delighted to be celebrating our 5th Annual Commission by Sacred Hill. We are very excited about the new work PJ Paterson is creating for the Festival. Paterson’s photography is an exhilarating mix of contemporary aesthetic and political engagement and we are very proud to support him. This year his new work will also be shown at the Pingyao International Photography Festival. There will also be an opportunity in this 5th celebration year to see all previously commissioined work since 2011 by Roberta Thornley, James K Lowe, Jennifer Mason and Tanu Gago at the Pah Homestead.
Once again the Festival has curated a suite of exhibitions under a theme – this year’s theme is Truth & Fiction. From documentary photography to digitally constructed realities there is much overlap between photography genres and shifting amounts of truth and fiction in every photograph for you to consider in this international selection of work.
Key exhibitions at the Auckland Art Gallery feature new work by Lisa Reihana with in Pursuit of Venus [infected] and Laurence Aberhart with ANZAC. At Silo 6 is photography from Auckland, Dirk Hanus - Germany, Julia Fullerton-Batten - UK, Maria Kapajeva - Estonia and Han Jiangang - China. Plus direct from Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops is a specially curated selection of international photojournalism. Angkor Photo Festival is one of Asia’s most respected photographic events and a pivotal part of the Asia Pacific Photoforum network.
This year’s Talking Culture Symposium is Photobook Stories, an exploration into the recent development in the rise of Photobooks. Keynote speakers include Anita Totha, (NZ); Dr Doug Spowart, Queensland, Australia; Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, Chief Curator, Kaunas Photo Festival Lithuania and Libby Jeffrey (Aus) who will present a panel discussion.
Other highlights include, for the first time in New Zealand, Magnum Workshops, hosted by Whitecliffe College over the opening weekend plus, direct from Paris, the exclusive NZ premiere of Offside Brazil, an exhibition by Magnum photographers Susan Meiselas, David Alan Harvey, Jonas Bendiksen and Alex Majoli, shot in response to Brazil hosting the 2014 Brazil FIFA World Cup.
So much to do and see across 21 days as well as over 50 photography exhibitions for and by you across the entire Auckland region in our Fringe programme. We invite you to engage, ponder, learn and enjoy inthe 12th annual Auckland Festival of Photography.
Festival programmes can be downloaded or viewed on our website or we have printed copies available at our office in Parnell. We also need volunteers to help distribute them to your local community/area/neighbourhood. Email info.photo.festival@xtra.co.nz if you need some or can spare time to share them with the community.