Welcome to Festival Zone for January 2012. Happy New Year to you all. We are delighted to thank the ASB Community Trust for their generosity in supporting the 2012 Festival. Once again without the ongoing support of the ASB Community Trust the annual Festival would not be viable.
December Blog - Photo of The Month - Open theme
Our December blog was an open theme. Our photo of the month is taken by Pierre Cilliers - Clock Tower with Moon at Gulf Harbour.
Clock Tower with Moon by Pierre Cilliers
January month is an open theme on Auckland Photo Blog. Enter your photo's here.
February blog theme - Maori
Auckland Festival of Photography Trust is inviting photographers to show your interpretation of our Maori theme throughout February - the month when the country celebrates Waitangi Day. Auckland region has a rich Maori culture and many Marae and public parks will host Waitangi Day celebrations. Photo's must be taken in Auckland region and your entries can be exisiting photo's from previous month's or new ones taken in February. We want to see a great online exhibition of all people and places Maori. Opens 1st February, a prize for the selected February 2012 Photo of The Month will be a $50 Real Groovy voucher. For inspiration see our previous community themes for Diwali, Lantern, Pasifika.
D Photo official media sponsor for 2012
Great news is we are partnering with D Photo Magazine again in 2012. Our Festival is the largest photographic event in the country each year and D Photo is the leading photography magazine in New Zealand. Hooray for the Festival and hooray for D Photo. See more in the next issue of D Photo out at end of January!
Other news
Our Asia Pacific Photoforum partner Festivals in Australia have a busy year planned in the months to June, the 2012 season sees the return of the fantastic FotoFreo in Western Australia kicking off on 17 March (and boy it is hot as a desert when you go around their shows, but well worth it!). Fremantle is lovely little place and they have many off beat venues as well the large public institutions participate. Following closley in April is the fast growing Queensland Festival of Photography organised by the QCP, this is a state wide Festival which fans out from Brisbane and spreads all the way to Cairns in the north of the state. And if you want more before June the newest Festival in the APP is Sydney's HeadOn Festival in it's 3rd year and starting on 4 May til 3 June.
Subscriber Prize Draw sponsored by D Photo & Apix
Each month til end of 2012 Festival, 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. December's lucky winner was Peter Ching.
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