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Festival Message This year the Auckland Festival of Photography is very proud to be celebrating its 11th edition. After our successful 10th anniversary year which saw an increase in attendance to over 55,000 at exhibitions and events across Auckland region, we have again grown in content and quality this year and have increased our international partners through the Asia Pacific Photoforum. At the heart of the Festival programme, we are delighted to support emerging local talent Tanu Gago with this year’s Annual Commission by Sacred Hill. We are very excited about the a unique vision which explores Pacific identities and spaces within an urban context and he constructs images that are unquestionably This is the first year the Festival has curated a suite of exhibitions under a theme – the 2014 theme is Memory. Photography’s relationship with memory is multi-faceted and complex. Our Memory exhibitions and events explore the idea of photographs not only as holders of memory but also as constructers of
Community & Cultural Grants Melbourne, New York, Tokyo and China will feature here. This year’s Talking Culture Symposium looks at Cultural Memory through the photography of indigenous cultures. We are delighted to welcome USA’s Chris Rainier, National Geographic Fellow and director of
the Last Technology Mile project, Australia’s Professor Wayne Quilliam, an Aboriginal Artist of The Year, plus NZ’s iconic Ans Westra along with emerging Maori photojournalist Qiane MatataSipu to present this contemporary forum on For the first time we are working with international partners from Tokyo, Japan, to bring you the exclusive Festival presentation of Nikon Photo Contest 2012-2013 Award winners exhibition. This exhibition showcases the awards selection of international photography from a massive 100,000 entries. Other international highlights include Sydney’s Head On Portrait Prize, plus work from USA, China, Australia and New Zealand’s next generation photography students in Future Projections. Our very popular hallmark event Nikon Auckland Photo Day is back on 7 June. This is a 24 hour event, community focussed people’s competition which celebrates the diverse daily life within the Auckland region. Get ready to shoot! Thanks to Nikon, whose commitment to “the heart of the image” is evident in the quality of their gear, 1st prize - Nikon D5300 “shoot and share wi-fi”, 2nd prize - Nikon 1AW-1, 3rd prize Nikon Coolpix P340. So much to do and see as well as over 60 photography exhibitions for and by you across the entire Auckland region in our Fringe programme. We are proud to present, in late May June 2014, the 11th annual Auckland Festival of Photography.
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Public Participation Director Julia Durkin
Talking Culture/Commission Projects Elaine Smith
Festival Programme & Fringe Bev Goodwin
Media Manager Victor van Wetering
Festival Interns Marcel Thiele, Olivia Mestad
Design – Programme & Promotions RFS
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Cover images by: Tatsumi Orimoto, Ian Macdonald, Christine Webster, Boyd Webb, Christine All images are reproduced courtesy of the copyright owners.
Thanks to: Terry Baxter, Annika Bennett, Jocelyn Carlin, Véronique -
Photography NZ Internet Services, Linda Tyler at Gus Fisher Gallery, Geoff Short at PhotoforumNZ, Zoe Zhang (Future Projections China), Jeff Moorfoot (Ballarat International Foto Biennale), Cristina Chavarria Flores
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