"Whakaahua" is a large body of work telling a story of transformation; as young New Zealanders embark on their journey to join the Regular F...

Artists: Craig Andrew Madsen

Venue: Papakura Museum

Dates: 20 April to 14 June [10am-4:30pm Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri & 10am-6pm Wed & 10am-3pm Sat]

These diptychs came from encounters in nature shaped by observation of inevitable change. I like to think about liminal spaces - thresholds...

Artists: Lara Gilks

Venue: Lara Gilks online

Dates: 15 May to 1 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

New Zealand is often regarded as a land of plenty, a distant utopia offering an enviable and idyllic lifestyle. With its small population an...

Artists: Will Green

Venue: Will Green online

Dates: 15 May to 14 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

For over a decade, Auckland-based artist Curtis Chan has been photographically surveying New Zealand's street life, with all its shades, nua...

Artists: Curtis Chan

Venue: Curtis Chan online

Dates: 15 May to 14 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

AInthropology is an experiment converging AI and Anthropology that serves as a historical record and a warning. Created in late 2023, bef...

Artists: Jon Carapiet

Venue: Jon Carapiet Online

Dates: 18 May to 22 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

Faye Norman and Jenny Tomlin’s works explore overlooked and untracked routes – natural spaces and found objects that exist alongside suburbi...

Artists: Faye Norman, Jenny Tomlin

Venue: Cell Block Studios, Studio One - Toi Tu

Dates: 21 May to 6 June [11am-3pm Mon to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat (closed Sun)]

Experience Ngā Wairau through the eyes of its young people at Through My Lens, a special exhibition of photographs inspired by the Wairau. T...

Artists: Various

Venue: Te Whare Roto o Toi - Lake House Arts Centre - Ogle Gallery

Dates: 24 May to 11 June [9am-2pm Mon to Fri & 10am-2pm Sat & Sun]

Transformative II is a retrospective-in-motion, bringing together works from across more than 30 years of my visual arts practice. Originall...

Artists: Grae Burton

Venue: Te Whare Roto o Toi - Lake House Arts Centre - Becroft Gallery

Dates: 24 May to 11 June [9am–2pm Mon to Fri & 10am–2pm Sat & Sun]

Auckland Festival of Photography is delighted to present work by Award winning photojournalist, Andrew Cornaga, Photosport focusing on the ‘...

Artists: Andrew Cornaga

Venue: Gantry - Silo Park

Dates: 26 May to 20 June [7am-7pm / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photography presents exclusively a suite of works from Ukranian artist, Roman Butym, who continues to create his work i...

Artists: Roman Butym

Venue: Gantry - Silo Park

Dates: 26 May to 18 June [7am-7pm / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photography Trust proudly presents an exclusive exhibition of Mayumi Suzuki's 'The Tide's Gift II" , a long term projec...

Artists: Mayumi Suzuki

Venue: Gantry - Silo Park

Dates: 26 May to 14 June [24hrs / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photography offer an exclusive presentation of an archival series, a selection of portraits from the "Up Against the Wa...

Artists: Deborah Smith; Mark Smith; Minka Firth (d).

Venue: Gantry - Silo Park

Dates: 26 May to 19 June [24hrs / 7 days]

Photos from the GE-Free Movement. Strict regulation of GE (Genetic Engineering) is the result of a movement that spans 25 years. GE-fr...

Artists: Jon Carapiet

Venue: purenz.net online

Dates: 26 May to 30 June [24hrs / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photography 2026 presents the 5th annual exhibition with NZ Herald photographers. In response to the theme this year fo...

Artists: Various

Venue: Queens Wharf Fence

Dates: 27 May to 21 June [24hrs / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photograpy Trust are delighted to present a selection from Paul Gilbert's Road People of Aotearoa: House-truck journeys...

Artists: Paul Gilbert

Venue: PwC Tower, HSBC Tower, Aon Centre, Jarden House and Deloitte Centre lobbies

Dates: 27 May to 17 June [7am-6pm Mon to Fri (closed Sat & Sun)]

A collection of vintage postcards with a transport theme, focussed on items of wider historical interest accompanied by a selection of model...

Artists: Gordon Nuzum and Maxim Esler

Venue: John Kinder House

Dates: 27 May to 28 June [12pm-3pm Wed to Sun]

Sanderson are pleased to present Sacrosanct - an evolution of Mickey Smith’s award-winning photographic series and an expansion of the artis...

Artists: Mickey Smith

Venue: SANDERSON

Dates: 27 May to 21 June [10am-6pm Mon to Fri & 10am-4pm Sat & Sun]

Auckland Festival of Photography is pleased to be collaborating with Stowarzyszenie WIDOK on the project “Bolesław Augustis: Two Homelands /...

Artists: Boleslaw Augustis

Venue: 154 Gallery - Level 2

Dates: 27 May to 14 June [10am-4pm Wed to Sun (also open on Kings Birthday Monday)]

A social documentary series following the work of Painga at Onepoto Primary School. This project explores how community-led initiatives can...

Artists: Francesca Brugnoli

Venue: Devonport Library

Dates: 29 May to 14 June [9am-5:30pm Sat to Tues & 9am-5pm Wed to Fri]

From the picturesque Keeper’s Cottage at Albert Park to hidden details at Britomart, come and enjoy an exhibition of photographs by Blair Ha...

Artists: Blair Hastings

Venue: Alberton

Dates: 29 May to 21 June [10:30am-4:30pm (last entry 3:45pm) Wed to Sun]

After a serious health scare, I got back to the artist side of myself. I discovered Impressionist Photography, thanks to the well known pho...

Artists: Roger Brown

Venue: Roger Brown Online

Dates: 29 May to 30 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

Auckland Festival of Photography Trust proudly presents an exclusive presentation of music photography taken in New Zealand by leading profe...

Artists: Various

Venue: Te Komititanga Square - Britomart Train Station

Dates: 29 May to 18 June [24hrs / 7 days (finishes 18 June midnight)]

Auckland Festival of Photography presents exclusively a suite of works from artist residency in Hainan, China by Bronislaw Kozka, Melbourne...

Artists: Bronislaw Kozka

Venue: Karanga Plaza

Dates: 29 May to 18 June [24hrs / 7 days (18 June midnight finish)]

Auckland Festival of Photography presents exclusively a suite of works from Taiwan by Shen Chao-Liang, Taipei based Award winning artist as...

Artists: Shen Chao-Liang

Venue: Te Komititanga Square - Britomart Train Station

Dates: 29 May to 18 June [24hrs / 7 days (18 June midnight finish)]

Auckland Festival of Photography Trust proudly presents an exclusive presentation of Cathy Carter's 'Zones of Immanence' environmental serie...

Artists: Cathy Carter

Venue: Karanga Plaza

Dates: 29 May to 18 June [24hrs / 7 days (18 June midnight finish)]

We’re planning on holding an exhibition of my recent photography series “Next Life” at Bespoke Barbers and Vintage in Birkenhead from 31 May...

Artists: Michael North

Venue: Bespoke Barbers and Vintage

Dates: 29 May to 9 June [9am-5pm Tues to Fri & 9:30am-4.30pm Sat]

Pinhole photography is very much hands-on and creates a kind of unknown spirit. It's photography where only a pinhole lets light in and onto...

Artists: Viky Garden

Venue: OREXART GALLERY

Dates: 29 May to 20 June [11am-4pm Wed to Sat]

How do you take a photo with a container of curry powder? Pinhole photographer Jenny Tomlin will have a selection of her photographs, and th...

Artists: Jenny Tomlin

Venue: Highwic

Dates: 29 May to 13 June [10:30am-4:30pm (last entry 3.45pm) Wed to Sun]

Fun, flair and interconnection transposed across generations and nations to enrich cultural identity in contemporary settings. Snapshots fro...

Artists: Polish community

Venue: Polish Heritage Trust Museum

Dates: 29 May to 14 June [10am-4pm Tues to Fri & 12pm-5pm Sun (closed Mon & Sat)]

RANGE presents a group of eleven artists situated around Aotearoa (and the UK) drawn together by a shared interest in analogue photographic...

Artists: Abbie Cossey, Anne Marie Basquin, Aimee Magne, Cassey Locke, Charlotte Parallel, Louise Corry, Madeline Jones, Christina Little, David Loughlin, Shelley Simpson

Venue: Eyes on Fire Gallery

Dates: 29 May to 18 June [10am-5pm Tues to Fri & 10am-4pm Sat & Sun]

Gus Fisher Gallery is proud to present Studies for a Keepsake – an unprecedented exhibition of pioneering artists Claude Cahun (1894-1954) a...

Artists: Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore

Venue: Gus Fisher Gallery

Dates: 29 May to 22 August [10am-4pm Tues to Fri & 10am-5pm Sat]

Talking Culture -  Full Programme, please join us for one or all the presentations Sat 30 May
11:15am - Lissa Mitchell (Aotearoa)
 12pm -...

Artists: Various

Venue: Auckland Region

Dates: 29 May to 14 June [Various]

Fujfilm NZ hosts our 4 key speakers at their new event space, come along meet our key speakers featured below at this Talking Culture specia...

Artists: Lissa Mitchell, Naok Ohta, Shen Chao-Liang and Hideko Kataoka

Venue: Fujifilm House Of Photography

Dates: 29 May [12-3pm Fri 29 May]

This exhibition features photography by Simon Runting, commissioned by Watercare, documenting the massive scale and human effort behind the...

Artists: Simon Runting, Watercare

Venue: Point Erin Park

Dates: 29 May to 30 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

CLASSIC AOTEAROA - New Zealand architecture through a photographers eye - In this collection, assembled over decades of exploring New Zealan...

Artists: MikiNobu Komatsu

Venue: The Tuesday Club GALLERY

Dates: 30 May to 4 June [12pm -4pm Sat & Sun (30 & 31 May) 10am-5pm Mon to Thurs (1-4 June) ]

A series of handmade photographic tableaux exploring the unwritten rules and elusive social etiquette of shared public spaces. Spaces such a...

Artists: Ruby Millichamp

Venue: Massey University Albany, Library

Dates: 30 May to 1 August [10am-6pm / 7 days]

Samuel Scully is a photographer concerned with the cultures of masculinity and contemporary mythologies within rural Aotearoa, most specific...

Artists: Samuel Scully

Venue: Massey University Albany, Library

Dates: 30 May to 1 August [10am-6pm / 7 days]

An exhibition of high quality A2 & A3 prints from Howick Photographic Society, showcasing the talents of their members. All prints are avail...

Artists: Howick Photographic Society Inc

Venue: Ormiston Town Centre

Dates: 30 May to 20 June [10am-4pm Mon to Sun]

IMAgEN8 and Northart are excited to offer two photographic workshops for tamariki in the Kaipātiki area this May, culminating in an exhibiti...

Artists: IMAgEN8 Workshop Students

Venue: Northart

Dates: 30 May to 27 June [10am-4:30pm Wed - Fri & 1pm-4pm Sat]

Hideko Kataoka is Photo Editor, Curator and Educator. As Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan, she created the 'Picture Power' section,...

Artists: Hideko Kataoka (Japan)

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 30 May [1pm Sat 30 May]

Lissa Mitchell is a photography curator and writer based in Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington where she holds a curatorial role at Te Papa. Lissa...

Artists: Lissa Mitchell (Aotearoa)

Venue: iHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 30 May [11:15am Sat 30 May]

Presentation & Q + A Naoko OHTA is president and CEO of Klee, Inc., which provides a wide range of art-related services, including the prod...

Artists: Naoko Ohta (Japan)

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 30 May [12pm Sat 30 May]

Panel discussion on women artists, photographers and the career paths in 2026. 3pm - 45 minutes. Lissa Mitchell (NZ), Naoko Ohta (Japan) an...

Artists: Lissa Mitchell (NZ); Naoko Ohta (Japan); and Anna Heath (NZ)

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 30 May [3pm-3:45pm Sat 30 May]

Shen’s career spans photojournalism, professorship roles, and convening the Photo ONE Taipei International Image Art Festival. He is exhibit...

Artists: Shen Chao-Liang (Taiwan)

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 30 May [2pm Sat 30 May]

The history of photography has shown a two-way influence with movements in painting. This influence was evident in 1890 when George Davison'...

Artists: Leonie Richardson and David Collier

Venue: The Stable Light Gallery

Dates: 30 May to 28 June [10am-4pm Thurs to Sun]

Auckland Festival of Photography invites you to join this unique opportunity to hear a panel discussion on photojournalism and documentary p...

Artists: Hideko Kataoka(Japan), Shen Chao-Liang (Taiwan), Jason Dorday (NZ), and Grzegorz Dabrowski (Poland), moderated by Janette Dalley (NZ)

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 31 May [2pm-2:45pm Sun 31 May]

Auckland Festival of Photography presents exclusively our media partnership with The New Zealand Herald, I Heart Lounge for portfolio review...

Artists: Various

Venue: IHeart Lounge, NZME Building

Dates: 31 May [10:30am-1:30pm Sun 31 May]

A group show featuring a diverse collection of imagery created by members of the Advertising & Illustrative Photographers Association (AIPA)...

Artists: AIPA

Venue: AIPA website online

Dates: 1 June to 30 June [Cancelled]

Auckland Photo Day is a community engagement project initiated in 2004 by the Auckland Festival of Photography as a way to build democratic...

Artists: Various

Venue: Auckland Library - Central City

Dates: 1 June to 14 June [11am to 1pm daily]

Auckland Photo Day is a community engagement project initiated in 2004 by the Auckland Festival of Photography as a way to build democratic...

Artists: Various

Venue: Ellen Melville Centre

Dates: 1 June to 14 June [11am-1pm Mon to Fri (weekend window viewing at centre)]

Jiongxin Peng won more than 100 gold medals in international photography competition/salon, 20 of them will be shared in this exhibition....

Artists: Jiongxin Peng (NZ Photographic Art Academy)

Venue: Takapuna Library - Level 1

Dates: 1 June to 30 June [9am-5pm Mon to Fri & 9:30am-4:30pm Sat and Sun]

You may not recognise this place but odds are you’ve seen parts of it before. It’s Erbil, a city in Northern Iraq. A name that likely brings...

Artists: Rawan Saadi

Venue: Rawan Saadi online

Dates: 1 June to 14 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

This project continues and develops research initiated during the 2025 Auckland Festival of Photography (Sustain), evolving in response to t...

Artists: Matthew Dowman

Venue: Instagram what_is_change online

Dates: 1 June to 30 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

In this series, I turn my lens toward the tūī, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most charismatic native birds. Recognised for its iridescent pl...

Artists: Mohamed Gohar

Venue: Mohamed Gohar online

Dates: 1 June to 14 June [24 hrs / 7 days]

In our Pod Gallery we present Fang Yuan’s series “Wu – Everything is Empty.” “Wu” describes a state before things are clearly defined, a spa...

Artists: Fang Yuan & Members

Venue: Kumeu Arts

Dates: 2 June to 27 June [9am-5pm Tues to Fri and 10am-4pm Sat (closed Sun & Mon)]

Brand Ambassador Day event supported by Harvey Norman. Two afternoons of talks, a panel and interactions with some leading photographers, w...

Artists: Various

Venue: The Annex, Wynyard Quarter

Dates: 5 June to 6 June [12pm-4.30pm Fri 5 June & Sat 6 June]

Systems of belief concerning the medicinal, magical and spiritual uses of plant materials were well established in the lives of European for...

Artists: Ann Shelton

Venue: Two Rooms

Dates: 5 June to 11 July [11am-5pm Tues to Fri & 11am-3pm Sat]

Four award-winning photographers explore light, portraiture, landscape, and the unexpected. Together we bring decades of experience, multipl...

Artists: Mark Burgess; Lynn Clayton; Karen Moffatt-McLeod; and Rolf Siggaard

Venue: Little Rosies

Dates: 5 June to 26 June [7am-3pm / 7 days]

In her new exhibition, Conor Clarke explores the sensory landscapes that the Kaikōura tītī navigate through. Clarke presents photographs of...

Artists: Conor Clarke

Venue: Two Rooms

Dates: 5 June to 11 July [11am-5pm Tues to Fri & 11am-3pm Sat]

We often view nature as a static backdrop, but through the lenses of these young artists, we see a world that is vividly alive. THE BREATHIN...

Artists: IMAgEN8 - young photographers (ages 8–18)

Venue: Mount Eden Village Centre

Dates: 5 June to 12 June [9am-1pm Mon to Fri, 10am-4pm Sat and Sun]

Gathered and Grown Here is a portrait series by Vinesh Kumaran focused on stallholders at the Māngere Markets. An 8–10 minute film and large...

Artists: Vinesh Kumaran

Venue: Mangere Markets

Dates: 6 June to 13 June [9am–1pm Sat 6th & Sat 13 June]

With her latest project, On Being, Elizabeth Corin invites us to step into a world that encourages us to linger in stillness, to dwell in th...

Artists: Elizabeth Corin

Venue: Lamplight Books

Dates: 7 June to 14 June [10am-5pm Mon to Fri & 10am-4pm Sat & 11am-3pm Sun]

Auckland Festival of Photography & Fujifilm NZ are delighted to present the Top 30 images as judged in the 2025 edition of Auckland Photo Da...

Artists: Various

Venue: Fujifilm House Of Photography

Dates: 8 June to 19 June [9am-5pm Mon to Fri (weekend access only if a talk event is on)]

Organised by Nga Ara Whetu | Centre for Climate, Biodiversity & Society, University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Come and see the br...

Artists: Nga Ara Whetu | Centre for Climate, Biodiversity & Society, University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau

Venue: General Common Space, Science Building

Dates: 8 June to 15 June [9am-4pm / 7 days]

Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic communities are shaped by journeys of resilience. Stretching back over a century to the island then known as Ceyl...

Artists: Abhi Chinniah

Venue: Studio One Toi Tu

Dates: 16 June to 29 June [10am-6pm Mon to Fri & 10am-4pm Sat]

F-Stop, an important camera function to depict 'Movement' in a photograph. Coinciding the theme our local rangatahi will exhibit 'art in mov...

Artists: Group show

Venue: Helensville Art Centre

Dates: 17 June to 25 July [10am-4pm Wed to Fri & 10am-2pm Sat]