Taken over a five-year period following the birth of her nephew, Orlando, Elizabeth Corin’s latest photographic series explores the relationships between a mother and her son as they grow together.

Shot on 35mm film, the photographs in Orlando and Ruth offer fleeting, intimate glimpses into their lives, capturing the joy, frustration and mundanity in the lilting dance of everyday life. And within this ebb and flow too, of course, is Elizabeth, who as a sister, aunt and photographer has helped shape these shared memories through different lenses and across fluid timelines.

Throughout her fourteen-year photographic practice, Aotearoa artist Elizabeth has captured moments that are profoundly personal yet prevalent, which whisper of the full complexity of lives lived beyond the frame.

With this touring exhibition of prints and accompanying photobook, she shares intimate portraits of motherhood which, in their evocative impressions of lived experiences, are universally palpable, yet profoundly personal.

Opening Celebration & Book Launch: Thu 7 Sept, 6-8pm. We thank Parrotdog for supplying us with their delicious beers :)

Extending his recent photographic work evoking celestial bodies, Luke Foley-Martin’s latest exhibition Radiant Solitude, explores connections between our concepts of outer space and the ‘inner space’ of self-reflection.

A selection of images from the series was recently exhibited in Staring into the Sun at Skar Image Lab in Tāmaki Makaurau as part of the 2023 Auckland Festival of Photography. A site-specific lightbox installation drawn from the series was also adapted for the LUMA Festival in Tāhuna Queenstown in June 2023. Drop into Little Rosie Café in Parnell from 10th July to 21st August to view his latest work.

https://lukefmphotography.com/

PhotoForum is a non-profit incorporated society dedicated to the promotion of photography as a means of communication and expression. PhotoForum maintains a print and online publication programme, and organises occasional exhibitions, workshops and lectures, and publishes independent critical writing, essays, portfolios, news and archival material.

PhotoForum is seeking to raise funds for its online and print publishing programme through a Silent Auction featuring donated Photographs from the following established and emerging artists:

Emma Bass, Grit Becker, Ziggy Bond, Caryline Boreham, Natasha Boshkovski, Wendy Brandon, Georgia  Carr, Gillian Chaplin, David Cowlard, Karen Crisp, Joe Dowling, Sonja Gardien, Sue Gee, Derek Henderson, Cassey Locke, Luke Foley-Martin, Anton Maurer, Allan McDonald, Peter Peryer, Solomon Mortimer, Yvonne Shaw, Jenny Tomlin, John B. Turner, Virginia Were.

The Closing Bids and Celebration will be held on Thu 6-8 pm, on 6 July 2023. 

These cameraless images are made over a long period of time – hours or months. Combining primitive photographic processes - pinhole, solargraphy or lumen there is an emphasis on experimentation and involvement of environment. Using it as a mark maker rather than photographing it.

"I’m really interested in how a landscape can be seen cumulatively and what disappears or remains." - Jenny Tomlin

Jenny Tomlin is an analogue photo artist and darkroom printer based in West Auckland. Her specialty is pinhole photography. Studying Photography at Elam in the 1980s she currently runs a darkroom service for film photographers while pursuing her personal practice.

Jenny's show is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography.

Julie Chandelier, Kelly Chapman,
Irene Middleton, Grant Nicholson, Rowan Nicholson, Yusuf Qureshi, Scott
Sinton, Edin Whitehead, Tony Whitehead & Scott Sinton

Get to know nine of Aotearoa's
amazing Wildlife Photographers, and explore the beauty that surrounds us in nature, with a level of detail that is mostly invisible to you.

Immerse into the fascinating world of wildlife photography, and see what you normally wouldn’t.

This group show is part of the upcoming Auckland Festival of Photography.

Given it is their primary source of light, photographers almost always consider the sun. Yet they seldom directly photograph it as a subject.

Sungazing is sometimes enacted as part of spiritual or religious practices, or as an alternative therapy, most often near dawn or dusk. However, it is considered extremely dangerous, and impossible to look at the sun for any length of time without damaging one’s vision or going blind.

Luke Foley-Martin’s exhibition combines real photographs of the sun with hand-made abstract simulations of celestial bodies created in the darkroom. Influenced by heliography and selected works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nicolai Howalt and Hiroshi Yamazaki, in ‘Staring into the Sun’ Foley-Martin risks his own eyesight to explore spaces between the real and imagined, vision and blindness.

Luke's show is one of the 2023 early bird highlights of the upcoming Auckland Festival of Photography.