media

All media enquiries to:  Victor van Wetering vvanwetering@gmail.com, the Festival office 09 307 7055 message service only or info.photo.festival@xtra.co.nz

Media 2024

June 2024 - Scoop - Sony Auckland Photo Day winners announced

June 2024 - The Big Idea - 'Faces of Freedom' wins Auckland Photo Day

June 2024 - Media release - Faces of Freedom wins 2024 Sony Auckland Photo Day

June 2024 - Howick Times - Showcase of artistic photographs

June 2024 - Stuff - Artist Hannah Rose Arnold's work at the Festival

June 2024 - 95Bfm - When Mauve Does the Tango w/ Andrea Gardner: June 14th, 2024

June 2024 - Herald On Sunday: Trance like communion - Winners Aotearoa Music Photo Awards

June 2024 - NZ Herald - Exhibition of AI-produced photography stolen

June 2024 - 95Bfm - Auckland Festival of Photography 2024

May 2024 - Devonport & Flagstaff - Beatrice Carlson; Objects Photos Art

May 2024 - Scoop - Nga Manu O Waiheke - Birds of Waiheke

May 2024 - The Big Idea - Aotearoa Music Photo Award Winners 2024

May 2024 - Radio New Zealand - Boris Eldagsen - Behind The AI Image That Shocked the World

May 2024 - NZ Herald - NZ Weekend Herald - Photojournalists Believe

May 2024 - NZ Herald - NZ Weekend Herald - Believe

May 2024 - Radio New Zealand - Sarah Palmer - Last Chance Tourism

May 2024 - Scoop - Culture - Entries open Aotearoa Music Photo Award 2024

May 2024 - Scoop - Culture - Believe [whakapono] is 2024 Festival theme

May 2024 - The Big Idea - Believe

April 2024 - Media Release - Believe - AFP 2024 programme announced

Media 2023

June 2023 - NZ Herald - Aotearoa Music Photo Award- winners announced

June 2023 - Scoop - Aotearoa Music Photo Award winners announced

June 2023 - North & South Magazine - Save The Date

May 2023 - NZH Viva - Emma Bass - Flower Power

May 2023 - The Big Idea - Andrew Cornaga wins 1st prize - Music Photo Award 2023

May 2023 - Media release - 2023 Aotearoa Music Photo Award winners announced

May 2023 - Herald On Sunday - Emma Bass exhibition brief

May 2023 - East Auckland Tourism - Photography exhibition

May 2023 - Heart of the City - Festival 2023 feature

May 2023 - Canvas Magazine - Nature Images You Cannot Resist

May 2023 - Eastlife Magazine - Warsaw 44 - Polish Heritage Musuem

May 2023 - NZ Herald - Resistance exhibition Silo 6

May 2023 - Photojournalism Now - Round Up 26 May

May 2023 - NZ Herald Lifestyle - Canvas - Dazzling exhibitions speak to fragility and beauty of nature

May 2023 - Gisborne Herald - Still time to enter Music Photography Award

May 2023 - Broadsheet AU - Questions of our times

May 2023 - Scoop - People's Choice prize 2023 AMPA

May 2023 Media release - Lights, Camera, Action - 2023 Aotearoa Music Photography Award

May 2023 - Scoop - Aucklander's can enjoy a free celebration of visual culture

May 2023 - The Big Idea - Resistance - 20th anniversary Festival

April 2023 - Media Release - Resistance - Festival 2023 announced

Media 2022

Oct 2022 - Asia NZ Foundation news - Ihiro Hayami & Emi Higano, speakers provide a lens on Japan

Oct 2022 - The Big Idea - Asia Focus - Photobook Friday ii 2022 - Japan

Oct 2022 - The Eye Of Photography - Gideon Mendel - Submerged Portraits

July 2022 - Scoop - "Home is where the knitting is"

July 2022 - NZ Herald - NZH; A Day In The Life

July 2022 - The Big Idea - Auckland Photo Day 2022 'Home knitting selfie' wins

June - Media Release - Home knitting selfie wins 2022 Auckland Photo Day - Final

June - Sunday Star Times - Rock of Ages - Chris Traill

June - NZ Herald Weekend -Lasting Impression - Alberton

June - NZ Herald Canvas - My Modernism- Lithuanian Society - Martynas Plepys

June - NZ Weekend Herald - Disruption - Shooting From The Lip

May - D Photo - D Photo; May 2022 - Disruption

May - NZ Herald Canvas - Jocelyn Carlin - Climate Crisis In The Lens

May - Radio NZ - Gideon Mendel capruting portraits of a Drowning World

May - NZ Musician - 2022 Music Photo Award winners

May - Howick Times - Theatre of War; Polish Heritage Musuem

May - D Photo - Double Grammar Zone curator Emil McAvoy

May - Herald on Sunday - HOS; Top Pic Rocks in The Rain

May - The Big Idea - Image Auckland announces winners Music Photo Award

May - Elsewhere.co.nz - Winners Music Photo Award 2022

Radio New Zealand - Music through a lens

May - NZ Weekend Herald - Music For Our Eyes

May - NZ Herald Canvas - Takapuna Musical Walk

May - I Love Takpuna - Aotearoa Music Photography

May - NZ Herald Canvas - John Rykenberg

Scoop - Exploring Disruption theme

NZ Herald - NZ Herald; Images of life in Covid times

The Big Idea - Festival 2022 theme - Disruption

Media release - Disruption - Festival 2022 announced

Media 2021

Radio NZ, Standing Room Only, August 2021 - A Bird's Eye View of Otakou, Bruce Foster

Mangawhai Focus, August 2021 - Josie Gritten Postcards feature beauty of family life

Stuff, July 2021 - Bruce Foster, Photographing a Scarred Landscape online art series

ŌPŌTIKI NEWS, July 2021 - Alex King - A Picture of Indigenous Freedom

Taranaki Daily News, July 2021 - Fiona Clark, Taranaki photographer's new exhibition

Alan Dove, 'Postcards From New Zealand' - July 2021 OAR 105.4 FM Dunedin

Radio NZ, Standing Room Only, July 2021 - Veronica McLaughlin on her music photography 'Postcard'

Canvas Magazine - NZH - Canvas July 2021

Media Release - Postcards From New Zealand new online series

Photoforum - Jane Zusters and Lockdown - reviewed

Stuff - Auckland Festival of Photography: New online outlet showcases works and artist talks 

The Big Idea - Auckland Photo Day 'Saturday' themed black & white wins

Scoop - Auckland Photo Day reportage shot wins

Media Release - Winner - All In It Together - Auckland Photo Day 2021

TV1 News - Isolation theme

New Zealand Herald - Lockdown isolation in focus for festival 

Stuff - Auckland Festival of Photography: A day to celebrate culture, identity

Radio NZ - Cameron McLaren on his challenging work, Festival i/v

VIVA - Peruse a Photography Festival

Photoforum - exhibition review: Kate Woods & Sue Jowsey/Len Gillman/Andrew Denton

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 28 May 2021

RNZ - Photographing Londoners looking through their windows with Julia Fullerton-Batten

D-Photo - Outdoor exhibition on City Rail Link underground by Mark Barber

RNZ - Photographer Cody Ellingham captures the poetry of isolation

Stuff - Auckland Festival of Photography 2021: Covid-19 inspires theme of isolation

Scoop - Isolation theme 2021 Festival

The Big Idea - 2021 Festival revealed

April 2021 -  Isolation 2021 Festival - Media Release

Media release - Entries Open - 2nd Prize Announced - Music Photography Award

Audio Culture - Photography as performance art

Media release - Music Photography Award 2021

Scoop - Entries Open - Aotearoa Music Photography Award

Music.net.nz - Entries Open - Aotearoa Music Photography Award

NZ Musician - Entries Open - Aotearoa Music Photography Award 

Media 2020

Photo forum - Annual Commissions reviewed

Canvas - Highlight: Emma Bass

Canvas - Guide Nikon Akl Photo Day

Media release - Kindness portrait wins top prize in 2020 Nikon Auckland Photo Day

TV1 News - Festival innovates around the pandemic

D-Photo - A new Festival for difficult times

Radio New Zealand - Judith Crispin beautiful roadkill

Heart of The City - Best of Queens Birthday weekend

NZ Canvas Magazine -Canvas Magazine May 2020

Radio New Zealand - Light Skin, Dark Skin

Media release - City Rail Link partnership Auckland Photo Day at Festival

Radio New Zealand - Werner Bishcof, USA series with Marco Bischof

Radio New Zealand - The end of history

D-Photo May 2020 - Annual Commission artists, Qiane Matata-Sipu, Saynab Muse and Raymond Sagapolutele

Media Release - May 2020 - Outdoor, online and on air showtime - Festival 2020

Radio New Zealand - Raymond Sagapolutele - Annual Commission

Media Release - April 2020 - Auckland Festival of Photography 2020 on air + You Tube - FINAL

NZ Herald Canvas Magazine - April 2020 - Canvas Magazine April 2020

Scoop - April 2020 - Festival on You Tube, Freeview CH200

The Big Idea - April 2020 - Festival to present contingency Online & On-Air 2020

Radio NZ - The Arts Show - Arts you can access online

Media Release - Mar 2020 - AFP 2020 on air and online - March

Sunday Star Times -  SST Feb 2020  - Annual Commission artists Raymond Sagapolutele, Qiane Matata-Sipu and Saynab Muse -

News Hub - J.Durkin Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM)

NZ Herald - New Years Honours: The Full List

Wikipedia - NZ New Year Honours

Scoop - Full New Year Honours List

Manatū Taonga - PM Congratulates New Year 2020 Honours recipients

Festival statement - Julia Durkin; MNZM Award 2020

The Brownbill Effect - Q&A with Julia Durkin

 

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