Welcome to Festival Zone for December 2011. Christmas and Holidays are fast approaching. And with the summer holidays come long sunny days at the beach, in the garden, the campsite or at the barbie. It's the season to be jolly and according to one competition being run out of New York to "Feast Your Eyes". See more about this competition in our other news below.
November Blog - Photo of The Month - Open theme
Our November blog was an open theme. Our photo of the month is taken by Hayley Theyers titled "Huia Girls".
Huia Girls by Hayley Theyers
December month is an open theme on Auckland Photo Blog. Enter your photo's here.
Jocelyn Carlin - New Trustee
Auckland Festival of Photography Trust is expanding it's base and esteemed photographer Jocelyn Carlin, whose amazing work on the effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands featured in our 2010 symposium, is joining our Trust. We are very happy to send out a big welcome to Jocelyn. See more about her background and work here.
Nikon Auckland Photo Day
The Auckland Festival of Photography Trust is delighted to welcome back Nikon as sponsor for Auckland Photo Day, our Signature annual public competition for the 2012 Festival. This competition has provided such great opportunities for known and unknown Auckland photographers to have their work seen nationally and internationally so we are very pleased to be working with the team at T A Macalister Ltd again in 2012. We will also be making some exciting improvements to the Festival website through the early part of 2012 to better showcase the great photography entered into Nikon Auckland Photo Day so watch this space!
Talking Culture Symposium presented by Lowepro in 2012
We are also very proud to be presenting our third annual Talking Culture symposium and Talking Culture projections series in 2012 and welcome our new sponsor Lowepro. Their generous committment allows an excellent starting point enabling us to invite internationally renowned key speakers to next year's Festival symposium and series.
Expressions of interest - Festival 2012
Dates for 2012 Auckland Festival of Photography will be Friday 1st to Sunday 24th June 2012. We are now accepting your expressions of interest if you are planning an exhibition for next year's Festival. Send your fringe exhibition expression of interest to bev.photofestival@xtra.co.nz or for general enquiries about the Festival contact us at info.photo.festival@xtra.co.nz between now and the middle of January 2012. And if you are planning on participating in the Festival for the first time details are here.
Other news
Image courtesy of artist
McNamara Gallery in Wanganui represents some of NZ's best photographer's and is the only dedicated photography dealership in the country. This month they are showing the work of James Lowe.
James K. Lowe, who has just represented New Zealand in the collective photography biennale PhotoQuai 2011, Paris, has a personal artistic practice inspired by a documentary style coupled with dreamlike visions of filmmakers such as David Lynch.
He successfully establishes the mood by suggesting narrative elements and actions to his characters, creating images of interaction, parting, transitions, at times fraught with psychological unease.
Preferring to work at night with bulb lighting that he projects, like an artist throwing paint, to selectively illuminate aspects of the scene and reveal his protagonists.
Fresh from his debut at PhotoQuai in Paris, his exhibition "American Night: opens on Friday 9th at 5.30pm. Until January 13th.
Feast Your Eyes - New York Photo Festival competition - 
Photographers can make the most of the holiday season by entering their holiday feast shots in this competition...
(Courtesy of New York Photo Festival) "Over the last decade, food culture in the United States has been transformed from simple meals of sustenance into an elaborate choreography of designer meals and presentations. During the holiday season "normal" meals aren't good enough anymore. The home chef is under pressure to crank out awe-inspiring gluttonous feasts that showcase traditional family recipes while incorporating all of the hottest trends in cooking. Our fascination with food embraces everything from celebrity chefs to 24-hour cooking channels, and reality competitions. But what does food mean to you? We challenge you to send us your best photo of food, from raw to cooked, from preparation to presentation, and everything in between. Submission Deadline: December 8, 2011".Documentaries - ST PAUL St Gallery Three - opens Monday 5 December - 10 December, 2011
Documentaries, curated by Fiona Amundsen and Dieneke Jansen, is an exhibition that brings together a diverse range of artists whose work spans five decades of documentary photography and moving image practice within New Zealand. The selected artists range from established iconic figures - David Cook, Ann Shelton, Ans Westra - within national and international photographic discourses to more emerging artists - Edith Amituanai, John Lake, Janet Lilo, Ant Low. Documentaries, mounted at St Paul St Gallery Three, runs alongside the Expanding Documentary conference jointly hosted by AUT and Auckland University.
Documentaries - ST PAUL St Gallery Three, 39 Symonds St - Next to the shops. Tues - Fri 12.00-5.00pm Saturday 10-12.
Subscriber Prize Draw sponsored by D Photo & Apix
Each month til end of 2011, 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 month. See here to subscribe. November's lucky winner was Karlyn Tefora.
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