Photobook/NZ Programme
19 - 20 August 2022
Te Papa
Opening
6.30pm – 7.45pm - 19 August Friday
Join us to celebrate the:
Opening of Te Papa’s Worlds Within: Photobooks of Aotearoa New Zealand exhibition and the opening of Photobook/NZ. L4, The Wedge, Te Papa.Register here (by 7 August)
Fiona Clark – the Peter Turner lecture – Friday 19 August, 8pm - 9.30pm, Soundings Theatre, Te Papa. Register here
20 August Saturday
Te Papa
The Wedge, L4
10am – 3pm - Bookfair – book collector heaven! Featuring photobooks, many in limited editions, from small presses, indie and trade publishers and galleries from around Aotearoa
On display at the Bookfair: Winners and shortlisted books from the: Aotearoa Photobook Awards; Hong Kong Photobook Awards; Australian Photobook Awards. Te Papa’s Worlds Within: Photobooks of Aotearoa New Zealand exhibition.
Book launches, Toi Arts foyer, L4: 11am Alan Knowles, Glueglyphs, speaker Dr Sydney J Shep; 12noon Rim Books, Motutapu - Benjamin Work and Brendan Kitto, in conversation with Megan Tamati-Quennell; 1:30pm Ann Shelton, A spoonful of sugar (revised edition, Rim Books), speaker, Mia Gaudin; 2pm Sheryl Campbell, ‘droplet’ in conversation with Mary Macpherson
4.00 – 4.45pm
Nicola Legat – publisher, Massey University Press and Te Papa Press, discusses the innovative photobooks published by the two Presses and the market for this work.
5.00 – 5.45pm
Iranian/Australian photographer Hoda Afshar talks with Daniel Boetker-Smith about her complex and multilayered photobook Speak the Wind (pub MACK) about the winds on the islands off the Strait of Hormuz.
(Live online event)
6pm
The Engine Room.
Russ Flatt Hellbent exhibition opening. Exhibition of recent work by 2022 recipient of the Peter Turner Scholarship in contemporary photography at the Engine Room Gallery, Massey University. Runs 15 – 26 August.
Sunday 21 August
Webbs Wellington
It’s Personal: The Howard Greive and Gabrielle McKone Photography Collection. Robert Leonard talks with Howard Grieve about collecting photography, 11.30 am (sharp).
Photospace Gallery
Mā Wai Rā: New Māori Photobooks
Curated by Michael Mahne Lamb and Tessa Williams
18 August – 3 September 2022
Artist talk and afternoon tea: Sunday 21 August, 2 - 4pm
Fresh and challenging photobooks from seven alumni and students of Whiti o Rehua/School of Art, Massey University. Curated by Tessa Williams and Michael Mahne Lamb.
Free entry to all events. Registrations are recommended for talks and required for the opening.
Satellite events
It’s Personal: The Howard Greive and Gabrielle McKone Photography Collection, 10–21 August 2022, Webbs Wellington
Former ad man Howard Greive and photographer Gabrielle McKone began collecting New Zealand art in the 1980s, but fifteen years ago they decided to focus exclusively on photography. Greive says, ‘Maybe it’s years in advertising but a sharp, single-minded proposition always works. And, for us, that SMP was photography.’ Their home is packed to the gills with photographs ranging from expressive to conceptual, documentary to directorial, but they don’t spread their bets, preferring to collect key figures in depth. This show samples their collection, featuring works by Edith Amituanai, Janet Bayly, L. Budd, Joyce Campbell, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Anne Noble, Peter Peryer, and Yvonne Todd. There’s also a cluster of gems from earlier figures: Theo Schoon, Ans Westra, and Gary Baigent. Join us for the opening preview, Tuesday 9 August at 6pm; and for the closing-day talk, on Sunday 21 August at 11am, presented in conjunction with Photobook/NZ, when Robert Leonard will ask Howard Greive about collecting with an SMP.
Peter Hannken, Observation on the frailty of existence, 18 - 22 August 2022, The Window at Bowen Galleries, plus other photographs by Peter. The Bowen Galleries are at 39 Ghuznee St, next to Customs Cafe and are open 11am -5pm Monday to Friday, 11-4 Saturday, 11-3 Sunday.
Joyce Campbell, The Sunken City, 4 - 27 August 2022, Bartley & Company Art. Abstract imagery of austere
urban landscapes and abandoned and sunken cities to advance Campbell’s ongoing exploration of ‘the brittle
city’ and the impact of industrial civilization on our planet and environment. Talk with Joyce Campbell, David Maskill and Geoffrey Batchen, Sunday 21 August, 9.45am.
Peter Peryer Colour, 13 August - 3 September, Hamish McKay. Considered the 'Colin McCahon of the Camera', known for his now iconic black and white photographs of the late 20th century, Peter Peryer began experimenting with digital technology in the early 2000’s, producing much of his work in colour until his passing in 2018.
Hamish McKay presents a selection of these colour photographs made in the last decade of the artist’s long career.