Wellington Photography Blog
12 April 2012 - workshop
Wellington Photographic Society
Lighting Workshop by Simon Woolf
Wellington Photographic Society, 7.30pm, Thursday
Tararua Tramping Club, Moncrieff St, Mt Victoria
17 December 2011 – 22 April 2012 - exhibition
Local Knowledge
From The Dowse: A new exhibition that examines the specifics of location and time and what it means to be at home. Local Knowledge features works by a range of artists: Dan Arps, Simon Faithfull, Veranoa Hetet, Mike Heynes, Julian Priest, Andrew Ross, Joe Sheehan, Ans Westra, Zheng Guogu plus Fiona Jack's Living Halls Project.
Where we are matters. In our increasingly nomadic lives, location is important. Everywhere is local. Right here is The Dowse Art Museum, sited on land that is now civic space but has over the years been a housing development, market gardens, and before that a grove of Kahikatea, part of the rohe of Te Atiawa...
11 Feb - 13 May 2012
3 New Exhibitions at Pataka
Pieter Hugo: Nollywood
Renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo's Nollywood series goes beyond simple documentary photography to explore the multilayered reality of the Nigerian film industry in a series of other-worldly portraits of the bizarre characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Nollywood, an industry whose prolific output is second only to Bollywood, releases up to a thousand titles a year onto the local home-video market, using cheap equipment, basic scripts, actors cast on the day of shooting and real locations. Hugo was so intrigued by Nollywood that he asked a team of actors to pose as the various charcters and photographed them. The deadpan portraits of actors and others staged in 'real life' settings in Southern Nigerian cities, which are the principal centres of film production, evoke a strangely unreal world where everyday reality any myth, fact and fiction are closely intermingled.
Pataka Museum
3 March - 1 April
Mountains of the Baekdu Daegan in North & South Korea, Photography by Roger Shepherd
Although Korea is a divided peninsula it is still connected by one mountain system called the Baekdu Daegan. Revered for thousands of years as a provider of energy and vitality for the Korean people, it is an unbroken ridge that stretches for some 1700km. Water never crosses it, making it the watershed of the entire peninsula. It is a place of huge nationalistic and spiritual significance for all Koreans.
Korean Mountain Culture expert Roger Shepherd has been researching and photographing the meaning of the Baekdu Daegan in Korea for the last six years. Recently he obtained permission to conduct a very rare photographic expedition of the Baekdu Daegan in North Korea.
25 Feb - 25 March
What Name is your Village : World photography by Bob Maysmor
Bob Maysmor has been taking photographs for over fifty years. He has travelled the world extensively, visiting over 160 countries including fascinating destinations such as Yemen, Angola, North Korea, Sao Tome, Georgia, and Saudi Arabia.
Bob has combined his love of travel, writing and photography to become a successful travel writer and photographer, winner and multiple finalist in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards.
"On a recent trip to Africa I was visiting a cattle market in Cameroon when a young man came up and asked me 'What name is your village?' This simple question reminded me of two things. For many people in the world, their lives stretch only as far as the horizon they can see – perhaps as far as a two day walk. Their village is the centre of their universe. It also reminded me that we can often take for granted how fortunate we are to be able to travel and experience other cultures and exotic places in the world.
The title of this exhibition seems a fitting acknowledgement to all those who have shared their lives and extended the hand of friendship to travellers from beyond their village."
9th February, 2012
Closing date for PSNZ honour applications approaches - only a couple more weeks until the 28th February
09 February 2012 - workshop
Wellington Photographic Society
Travel Photography – Karim Sahai
Wellington Photographic Society 7.30pm, Thursday
Tararua Tramping Club, Moncrieff St, Mt Victoria
7th February, 2012
Nikon D800 and D800E announced - new 36MP full-frame DSLRs
Winterlight Workshops - Wedderburn
From Tony Bridge: The Maniototo district in Central Otago, New Zealand, has to be one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and in winter it is an extraordinary landscape which begs to be photographed.
The Winterlight workshop will focus on landscape photography, and making images which evoke the beauty and serenity of the area.
Each workshop is limited to a maximum of ten participants, to ensure there is time for plenty of individual attention and tuition, both around the fire and in the field.
Workshop one: June 23 to June 29, 2012
Workshop two: July 01 to June 07, 2012
January 19th
The end of an era ??
Kodak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
As film giant Kodak files for bankruptcy protection, everyone from photographers to economists is looking back at the company that was, for so long, synonymous with American photography. The company has entered the US 'Chapter 11' process by which a court oversees its restructuring and protects it from its creditors as it attempts to reorganize into a profitable business.
Kodak will never again be the photographic titan it was during the film era. This has prompted many retrospective articles, including a heartfelt and personal piece by New York Times writer and photography blogger David Gonzalez...
January 12th
Adobe to release CS6 ( creative suite ) including photoshop in May 2012
special upgrades for CS3 and CS4 users announced
January 10th
Lightroom 4 beta released