Welcome to Festival Zone for August 2024.
Our Festival 'Believe' theme this year explored AI in photography, as part of our public programme we held a panel discussion, debate on this hosted by NZME. A edited video of this, is now available on our You Tube channel.
Featuring Award winning film maker, Sharron Ward, international photojournalist, Sarah Palmer and local artist, Jon Carapiet who exhibited, presented at the 2024 Festival and Director of Visuals, NZME Janette Dalley. Thanks to our panel for their generosity of knowledge and insights.
10th Indian Photo Festival - Open Call
Pleased to share the Open Call for the 10th Indian Photo Festival in Hyderabad. Deadline is 1st September.
Really proud to support the Open Call for this India based Festival, and for Julia Durkin, MNZM founder and CEO, Auckland Festival of Photography, to join the esteemed selection panel for these international submissions.
Selection Panel - Shweta Gulati (Visual Producer - National Geographic), Harsha Vadlamani (Photo Journalist & Nat Geo Explorer), Senthil Kumaran (Documentary Photographer) & Julia Durkin, MNZM, (Founder & CEO - Auckland Festival of Photography)
If you have a high-quality series, body of work for exhibition, we encourage your work to be sent for consideration before their deadline. This is a wonderful opportunity, more details on Indian Photo Festival - Hyderabad
Believe - NASA James Webb exhibition - Queens Wharf
NASA James Webb Telescope- Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras Hazes
(NIRCam Image) by NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScl)
Deep Space, Queens Wharf Fence - extended through August.
Thanks to NASA, and Queens Wharf Fence team, and Eke Panuku Development.
Leica Oskar Barnack Award shortlist announced
For the 44th time, Leica Camera AG is honouring outstanding finalists with the internationally renowned photography award, following an elaborate selection process. In a first step, 80 international photography experts from around 50 countries submitted their proposals for LOBA 2024, including New Zealand. The excitement about the identities of the winners of the main and the newcomer awards will remain unabated, until 10th October. Once again, the award ceremony will be combined with a big celebration at Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany. Until then, the series of all the finalists on this year’s shortlist will be presented on the LOBA website: www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/ .
03. A scene at the Wunderland Kalkar amusement park,
Germany 2023 from the series An Anthology of a Changing Climate
© Ingmar Björn Nolting/LOBA 2024
Asia Pacific Photoforum
2024 Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Japan held their 40th anniversary edition. Our hats off to this Japanese partner Festival in the Asia Pacific Photoforum network. Possibly the longest running photography Festival in Asia? Congratulations to Higashikawa Town of Photography in Hokkaido.
Julia Durkin, MNZM, our founder/CEO was able to join them on her trip to Japan, supporting NZ arts & culture in the Asia Pacific, ahead of the next edition of our Kòwhai Residency this month and to research Tokyo's next T3 Photo Festival and the launch of Tokyo's T3 Photo Fair in October. More information on this soon. #asiapacific #photography
Head On Photo Awards Open Call
One extra international opportunity for our NZ photographers with top quality projects, open now are the Head On Landscape Awards, Portrait Awards. Deadline is 18 August, some fees apply, great exhibition opportunity at Sydney's November Festival. Don't miss this!
