The Auckland Festival of Photography 2005 is about to explode across the city through June. Listed are photographers, exhibitions, events and venues.

A picture tells 1000 words - Get ready to become fluent in the universal language of photography this June!

Focus your lens -adjust your eyepiece and snap into the world of some of New Zealand's most celebrated photographers.

2005 sees the return of The Creative Exposure Auckland Festival of Photography. Building on last years overwhelming success the 2005 programme boasts increased participation from established galleries with both eminent and emerging photographers.

Renowned photographers including Ingrid Boberg, Marti Friedlander, Deborah Smith, Allan McDonald and Haruhiko Sameshima headline this high profile event. In addition to showcasing the work of these artists the Festival has a commitment to providing a strong presence in local communities. 'The Festival offers something for both the fine arts devotee and the snap-happy weekend photographer' says Creative Exposure organiser Julia Durkin. With exhibition venues ranging from The Avondale Bowling Club to The John Leech Gallery the Festival truly honours its commitment to diversity.

Reflecting the varied social textures of Auckland - the work presented in this Festival celebrates the many individual pockets of culture and identity present in New Zealand's biggest city.

Not to be limited to the viewing of photography the Festival also offers an opportunity for active participation. THE AUCKLAND CITY PHOTO DAY on June 11 calls on all Aucklanders from students to camera clubs to cultural groups to get out and capture A Day in the Life of Auckland. The top images from this competition are presented in a public digital visual slide show at a central city location. This is a fun event open to all. Sponsored by Auckland City.

FREEZEFRAME 18 Photographic Events, over 90 Photographers & 17 Venues

The Festival runs 4 - 26 June 2005 at various venues and galleries all over the city

For the full programme visit:
www.thebigidea.co.nz
www.photoforum-nz.org.nz
www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/events

STREET
June 7-18

An exhibition by Abby Storey, Henry Jen, Germs and Sada - four photographers, all in their twenties - capturing different aspects of street culture in Auckland City.

'Street culture' is much used as a term, but who defines what it is? Street encompasses these four Aucklanders' diverse views on what street culture encompasses within the CBD.

Spiral Gallery Ph 303 3662

CONNECTIONS June 10-19

Vicky Thomas and Rochelle Panoho-Smith are photographers both of Maori descent. In this exhibition they explore cultural relationships within Aotearoa New Zealand, relationships that have and will continue to inform and shape their views of a country they call home.

Kura Gallery Ph 302 1151

SHIFTING PARADISE & BLACKNESS June 11-30

Video installation, photography and print by internationally-exhibited, British artist Rose Kowalski. Spain and New Zealand are settings for her work where tourist photography becomes theatre - and light is reduced to a bare minimum.

Backroom@Whitespace Ph 361 6331

Rose Kawalski Still image from digital video work called Technicolour Dreams screening as part of Shifting Paradise & Blackness at Whitespace backroom

MARKET MOSAICS June 14-28

Selected images from more than 6000 photographs taken by Li Xin of the Avondale Sunday Flea Market over a one year period. Market Mosaics is a visual diary that captures the market's diversity, community significance and commercial activity.

Migrant Resource Centre Ph 625 2440

TALKING CULTURE June 11, 12, 15 & 18

Photographers talk about their work and exhibitions.

Artstation (11/6, 1pm) Alka Krisson, Meredith Brocklebank, Katharina Nobbs, Terrie Buick & Andie Pryce

Aotea Gallery (12/6, 2pm) Nikki Denholm & Allan McDonald

John Leech (1pm,16/6) Marti Friedlander & Deborah Smith

Whitespace (15/6, 6pm; 18/6, 10.30a.m.) Rose Kowalski & Ingrid Boberg

PEOPLE June 4-26

Images by some of the country's best photographers from two of NZ's finest collections, The Wallace Arts Trust and The Photographic Society of NZ.

Featured photographers include Brian Brake, Stan Long, Christine Webster and Mark Adams. Many images have not been exhibited before.

Images of People are at the core of this joint exhibition which shows how we look at ourselves now and over the past 50 years.

James Wallace Gallery (Contact: Photographic Society of New Zealand Ph 416 8035)

Brian Brake No Title - part of the PSNZ collection and in the People exhibition at James Wallace Trust gallery

A group exhibition exploring the notion of view-points, i.e. how photographers 'see' and how their work is 'seen' by others.

Photographers include Alka Krisson, Meredith Brocklebank, Katharina Nobbs, Terrie Buick and Andie Pryce.

Their intention is to open another perspective, a space where the viewer can pause - and feel and see anew.

Artstation Ph 307 2677

THE NEW ZEALAND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2004 - TOURING EXHIBITION June 7 - 17

This exhibition features the 100 top-scoring images from 2004's awards. This exhibition is considered the premiere showcase for professional photographers working in New Zealand.

Vero Centre Main Lobby Phone Bruce Gabites, NZIPP, 817 1490

DIELECTRIC CONSTANT June 20 - 1 July

A group show exploring spatial relationships using juxtapositions of text and photographs to highlight poetic and literal conventions and how we view space.

George Fraser Gallery Phone 367 7163

CHANGING ROSKILL June 7-16 & June 21-30

Selected images of this changing suburb - taken by photographer Haruhiko Sameshima over a six moth period - as it undergoes a period of transition prior to the extension of State Highway 20.

These black and white, large format documentary images of the suburb were taken using a 1950s camera and tripod.

In 2004 Sameshima was commissioned by the Mount Roskill Community Board to record the suburb before roading developments ultimately transformed it.

Black and white film was used as because of that medium's longevity. All the images will be scanned and stored at the Central City Library and may be later published as a book.

Sameshima has exhibited and published work throughout New Zealand and lectures at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

(June 7-18) Mt Roskill Library Ph 374 1317
(June 21-30) Central Library Ph 377 0209

AUCKLAND CITY PHOTO DAY June 11

Creative Exposure's annual call for Aucklanders to photograph a day in the life of New Zealand's biggest and most diverse city!

The top images from this year's competition will be shown in a digital visual slide show in the city, at a venue to be announced. The images are expected to include seascapes, people enjoying their city in various locations and documentary-type images of unexpected niches found within the urban cityscape.

Images as diverse as coffee houses and second hand book stores and an abandoned fridge on a building site were also displayed as part of the AK05 festival 4.1 exhibition. Following last year's success, organizers are hopeful of an even bigger public response and Auckland City will once again sponsor the event. Creative Exposure has also distributed a specially-designed CD to schools, tertiary institutions, camera clubs and cultural groups to encourage people of all ages to participate in this fun event.

Event Promotion Auckland City Council 379 2020

A BIT OF A DO June 18-28

Specially selected images showing social and cultural events that bind communities together. Private celebrations such as family parties or weddings or public events.

Creative Exposure has asked photographers annually since 2004 to submit some of these 'A Bit Of A Do' images and chosen to display them in community venues to build new audiences for photography by making the work more accessible.

This year's images will include:- tattooing, hay making, weddings, Indian family traditions, birthdays too and public events with politicians at Lantern Festival, musicians at Pasifika Festival, kids at the Weetbix Kids Tryathlon and Diwali dance performances.

This year's exhibition will be displayed at the Avondale Bowling Club, the training ground for some leading young NZ bowlers and in the heartland of this established working-class suburb.

Avondale Bowling Club Ph 0274 735 443

WHERE IS THIS? June

An architectural practice with specialist building conservation skills is presenting a rare collection of more than 100 late-Victorian black and white photographs of New Zealand shops and houses.

Most locations are presently unknown and the photographs' owners want audiences' help to identify them. Where Is This? invites the viewer to help the research and, in the process, reveal to others something about their city's history and heritage.

The photographs in the exhibition were discovered in a basement last year and were ultimately passed on to inner-city firm Archifact. Company director Adam Wild decided to present the images to Aucklanders in this exhibition, with a sheet adjacent to each photograph so viewers can provide their theories or clues to determine where the photographs may have been taken.

Most images are of grand homes, thought to be constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, from central and outlying suburbs.

Although many may have since been destroyed, exhibition organizers are optimistic that, as well as providing information or clues about the photographs, viewers will be inspired by some of the building heritage and social history they record.

Archifact Adam Wild Ph 966 6940

K'RD PORTRAITS June

www.streetphotographystall.co.nz

An online portrait gallery of business and night people, clubbers, students, shop-keepers, cabaret artists and tourists photographed by Ralph Talmont on Karangahape Road during a marathon 24-hour photo shoot.

Talmont took photographs of anyone who would sit for a portrait over a day and has selected images for this online exhibition from several hundred images taken.

Darren Glass Waiting For My Train 1999 at Anna Miles Gallery

QUICK QUICK SLOW June 2-July 2

Three artists attempt to capture a particular sequence in time using starkly different techniques: Isobel Thom records the many faces of a crystal; Darren Glass uses pinhole technology; and Allan McDonald's observations of Auckland's progress.

Glass is represented by a 1999 work, Waitin' for My Train, a monumental negative wrapped around a 2.8metre high drum. The work was made using a 15kg pinhole camera constructed from laminated wood. Glass traveled New Zealand with this camera for 80 days.

During this time the camera de-laminated, causing stripes to appear across the surface of the nearly 500 exposures that make up this unique photographic work.

Allan McDonald's three photographs are part-panorama, part documentary. Culled from his ongoing observation of Auckland's development, these are digitally printed images of framed-up house 'skeletons' located in suburban developments on the city's outskirts.

Each work is made up of multiple 35 mm negatives spliced together. The resulting large scale prints are cast in an ambiguous pink that renders them both romantic and toxic.

New York-based painter Isobel Thom has been working on epic scale circumnavigations of crystals.

Her works are made up of multiple parts which record the many faces of a single crystal.

Each segment of the work is usually representative of a day's work in the studio. Thom often attempts to repeat a particular course around the crystal a number of times to illustrate the impact of time on her work.

Anna Miles Gallery Ph 377 4788

ART 2/2

CONTENT & FORM June 4-25

An exhibition presented by Photoforum, of three Auckland photographers focusing on social concerns including: AIDS, prison reform, urban sprawl and conservation.

Expressed through a diverse range of personal art strategies, their work reminds us that exemplary art can occur when content and form become one.

Photographers showing their work are Nikki Denholm, Allan McDonald and Ian Macdonald. Nikki Denholm has traveled extensively, documenting the stories of people in times of war, persecution and crisis, with her work published internationally. Allan McDonald has exhibited throughout the last 30 years, throughout New Zealand and currently teaches at Unitec. Ian McDonald is a veteran in the visual arts arena, with major works including wildlife and landscape photography in New Zealand for the BBC.

Aotea Gallery Photoforum contact: John Turner 373 7599 x 88099

SHE SAID June 8-July 2

Featuring fine arts by two of New Zealand's leading photographers Deborah Smith and Marti Friedlander.

This exhibition looks at the ways images of childhood are portrayed in their work. Marti Friedlander is one of New Zealand's most celebrated photographers and Deborah Smith has been a prominent figure in contemporary New Zealand photography for more than a decade.

John Leech Gallery Ph 303 9395

HOME BEAUTIFUL June 11-30

Ingrid Boberg's photographs use familiar domestic objects to 'reinvent the interior', with large format works often featuring content that is sometimes ambiguous in scale.

Boberg's work operates in the recently colonized hybrid position held between 'real' and 'constructed' space. It is both photographic and painterly, rendering scenarios of quiet intrigue.

The content of the work often occupies the macro space and the micro space, co-existing and reflecting each other, while referencing points of entry into 'other' aestheticised worlds.

Whitespace Ph 361 6331

Week one, June 2005

Where Is This? Archifact June

K'Rd Portraits www.streetphotographystall.co.nz June

Quick Quick Slow Anna Miles Gallery 2 June - 2 July

People James Wallace Gallery 4 - 26 June

Content & Form Aotea Gallery 4 - 25 June

Street Spiral Gallery 5 - 18 June

Changing Roskill Mt Roskill Public Library 7 - 16 June

Looking In, Looking Out Artstation 7 - 18 June

PPAC 2004 Touring Exhibition Vero Centre Lobby 7 - 17 June

She Said John Leech Gallery 8 June - 2 July

Week two, June 2005

Connections Kura Gallery 10 - 19 June

Auckland City Photo Day Auckland 11 June

Home Beautiful Whitespace 11 - 30 June

Talking Culture Artstation 11 June 1pm Aotea Gallery 12 June 2pm

Shifting Paradise & Blackness Backroom, Whitespace 11 - 30 June

Market Mosaics Migrant Resource Centre 14 - 28 June

Week three, June 2005

A Bit Of A Do Avondale Bowling Club 18 - 28 June

Changing Roskill Central Public Library 21 - 30 June

Dielectric Constant George Fraser Gallery 20 June - 1 July

Talking Culture Whitespace 15 June 6pm John Leech 16 June 1pm Whitespace 18 June 10.30am

Photo Day Winners Auckland City End Festival