The Auckland Festival of Photography is open to programme any exhibition which celebrates photography. We encourage festival participation from all levels of exhibitors including from Galleries, Venues, Artists and community groups. We aim to make this as easy as possible.

Galleries and Venues

If you represent photographers who are due for, or are planning an exhibition of their work then all you need to do is schedule the exhibition within the festival timeframe - in June starting Queens Birthday weekend for three weeks.

There are no restrictions to the length of the exhibition during the Festival. But all exhibitions must be specifically created for or be shown during the Festival in order to qualify for inclusion in the Festival programme. Timing can vary from three weeks, two weeks to a weekend special event and can include an artist's or curator's talk under the Talking Culture banner.

NEW GUIDELINES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED IN SEPTEMBER 2007.  NEW 2008 Festival dates - 30 May to 22 June 2008.

Any expressions of interest for your Gallery or venue can be sent for Manukau or Waitakere or North Shore or any Auckland City area expressions of interest should be forwarded to akl.festival.photography@xtra.co.nz.

Our 2008 programme opened at the end of September 2007.  PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED. Full programme launched in April 2008.

Shoe and Figurine 2005 - Kirsty MacDonald©

Artists, Clubs and Groups

We encourage exhibitions from any individuals and collectives. These groups and individuals must locate a space to exhibit and follow the same process for submission as the galleries and venues.  Do you need a Gallery to be in the Festival? Not really, the Festival encourages the use of public spaces, any alternative venue  such as a theatre foyer, a library, Britomart foyer, bowling clubs etc. Bluewater Consortium have a space available for artists use on Custom St East.  All these types of alternative venues would require a bit of research. We suggest you approach them directly. Photographic visual arts in the community are encouraged by the Festival, as part of our participation strategy which provides for subtle interventions in the landscape with photography.

Contact us by email: akl.festival.photography@xtra.co.nz or call Julia on 0274-735-443.

The Festival does not provide any direct financial assistance to venues, galleries or artists. We are however happy to provide letters of support for funding.

See http://www.nzlive.com/en/index?type=funding for funding options in the Auckland region.