2026 : 05 May Aotearoa Music Photo Award

People's Choice Prize by Harvey Norman 2026 winner -

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Cease and Desist at Big Fan by Sandy Hughes. Congratulations.

People's Choice prize by Harvey Norman is decided by public vote, highest number of 5 star votes wins at closing, most legit single votes after audit of the count is the winner.

Keegan Gingrich; A Singer's Soul; Henry from Powder Chutes baring his soul in Nelson
Keegan Gingrich; Collision Course; Mountain bikes fly overhead during an emotion packed scream for Powder Chutes' Clarke West
Camilo Toro; The Sound Between Walls;“In small rehearsal spaces, music fills every corner long before it reaches an audience.”
Camilo Toro; The First Note;“Every performance begins in silence. This moment captures the space where ideas slowly become rhythm.”
Camilo Toro; Between Cultures;“A Kiwi pianist, Latin rhythms, and stories carried across oceans... music becomes a shared language.”
Camilo Toro; The Pulse Of The Room;“Focuses instead on the quiet labour behind it... The rehearsals, cultural exchange and human connection that give the music its life.”
Camilo Toro; Hands that remember;“Years of experience live in the hands of musicians long before a single note is heard.”
Camilo Toro; Finding The Groove;“Rehearsals are not about perfection. They are about listening, adjusting and discovering the soul of a song.”
Camilo Toro; Conversations Without Words;“These photographs explore the quiet moments before performance, where music is shaped, tested, questioned and finally born. In simple rehearsal spaces across Aotearoa, cultures, rhythms and personal histories come together to create something larger than sound itself. Kiwi Latino is more than a band | it is the meeting point between Latin America and New Zealand, between experience and youth, between tradition and reinvention. This series documents the unseen side of music: the conversations, concentration, improvisation and emotion that exist long before the stage lights turn on.”
Camilo Toro; Building Something New;“Kiwi Latino is not recreating Latin music... They are creating a New Zealand expression of it.
Camilo Toro; Seventeen;“Youth, vulnerability and confidence meet in a voice carrying Latin warmth into a new generation of music in Aotearoa.”
Maanika Narsai; Ladi6

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