Innovation, initiative and challenging the status quo. These are principles to live by at any point, but particularly right now. The Auckland Festival of Photography 2023 has launched with a theme of resistance/ātete, and included are dazzling and arresting exhibitions that speak to the fragility and beauty of nature.
Infra Moana – Aquamarine from Cathy Carter’s exhibition “Planet Ocean” at Time Out and Novel Bookstores and Spaces, 17th Floor Commercial Bay.
Deep Reflection – Irene Middleton from the exhibition “NZ Wildlife Photographers” at Skar Image Lab, 1 New Bond St, Kingsland.
Is this my good side? – ngirungiru by Kelly Chapman from the exhibition “NZ Wildlife Photographers” at Skar Image Lab, 1 New Bond St, Kingsland.
The Process of Fruit Growth – Masumi Shiohara – in the outdoor lightboxes on Freyberg Place, Auckland CBD.
Flamingoes – Desiree Hirner – from the exhibition “Wild Fuchsia” at Little Rosie, 76 Gladstone Rd,
Parnell.