12 June 2010 - midnight to midnight - 24 hours, one day, one city
The 2010 Festival welcomes back Olympus as the key sponsor for this annual photographic competition.
THE OLYMPUS AUCKLAND PHOTO DAY (initiated by the festival in 2004) is an open access public competition run over a period of 24 hours. For one day only photographers are asked to capture an image which reflects their Auckland. And if the photo is good enough to show your friends and family - your built-in audience - it might be good enough to win 1st prize in Olympus Auckland Photo Day. Groups, individuals, families, children and anyone who has access to a camera is encouraged to submit the scenes, people and places that reflect their Auckland city.
OLYMPUS Auckland Photo Day is conversational, it allows anyone, anywhere in Auckland, to share their perspectives of our city. It creates democratic visual conversations about the place we live, work and play. We want to see the fascination in the everyday, what is supringsly different and what is comfortingly familiar. This event celebrates the many individual pockets of culture and identity present in New Zealand's biggest city by building cultural currency. Whilst celebrated in a spirit of fun this event also fulfills the important role of documenting our life right here and now in the world we live in. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF Auckland. Use your eyes and show us your vision.
Photographs are kept in archive for future exhibition and to provide a visual resource for the region. All images submitted are available to view for reference, research and limited use for promotional purposes under licence.
View previous finalists and winners here:
Media releases:
- Olympus Auckland Photo Day Winner 2009
- OlympusAucklandPhotoDayWinner2008
- OlympusAucklandPhotoDayWinner
- PhotoDay2006
Youth
Youth culture and its active participation is a vital ingredient to the success of Auckland Photo Day. A number of schools over the Auckland region have used this event as a class project, an initiative which has produced inspiring results. For school groups wanting to take part read the experience of Wesley below.
Anyone can pick up a camera and take photographs. Young people without the limitations of conventions are eager to shoot the world around them. Student groups, introduced to the art form of photography via Auckland Photo Day impressed the festival with their entries.
Whether the students regarded photography as an art form or a way to record daily lives and identity depended on the individual. What was more significant was the acquired confidence that developed from these projects and the resulting comprehension of visual language and the media.
In 2004 respected Auckland photographers Wayne Wilson and Amos Chapple showed their work to the students of Wesley School - talking about composition and 'filling the frame' - and gave students feedback on their photographs. Prepared and confident the students set out on June 12 2004, taking more than 500 digital images as they walked around Auckland City and visited FESTIVAL photography exhibitions.
This resulted in three of the student's photographs making the overall competitions top 30, two were short-listed in the top six, and one was judged the winner. Of 35 images the students entered in the Photo Day competition, Wesley Tumai's picture of students by the Aotea Centre fountain, won top prize - ahead of 400 other entries!
The students' success prompted Wesley Primary to buy three digital cameras for students and teachers, motivated by the success of the project, to use.
In 2005 this Photo Day event proved a winning formula again, as Wesley School participated and got a top 30 placing and produce another winning top 6 image.
Wesley visit Street exhibition
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Photographer Henry Jen talks about his work
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