media
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Media 2022
Oct 2022 - Asia NZ Foundation news - Ihiro Hayami & Emi Higano, 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
The Big Idea - You Tube channel 2021 - Postcards From NZ
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
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
Media 2019
Scoop - Citizen Journalism wins 2019 Nikon Auckland Photo Day
NZ Herald - Snaps of city at sleep and play
The Big Idea - Winners 2019 Nikon Auckland Photo Day
Media release - Citizen Journalism wins 2019 Nikon Auckland Photo Day
D-Photo - 'Deer Planet' to presentes on screen at Ellen Melville Centre
The Big Idea - Amie Kaufman wins the 2019 new photography prize
Media release - Alex Mao Photograpy Award winner
Verve June 2019 Hayley Theyers
NZ Herald June 2019 Yoko IISHI
NZ Herald June 2019 Cathy Carter
The Big Idea - Movers and shakers in the city
NZ Herald - Oh Deer! Weather damages outdoor exhibition
Photojournalism Now Part 2 - Feature - Core shows The Passing, TORN, Osmosistem, LOOM plus Embracing The Other.
Radio New Zealand - Alejandro Cegarra interview
Photoforum NZ - Yvonne Shaw - Annual Commission review
Auckland University - Simon Devitt Prize winner - Angela Yuyi Hu
Stuff - Join Nikon Auckland Photo Day archive
NZ Herald - Mazda 'Beauty by Subtraction' winner Joingxen Peng
Franklin News - Denise Matene - Rangatahi Matter
Sunday Star Times - Zoom with a View
Photojournalism Now - Fissure theme
Public Address - Capture
Metro Magazine - Nikon Auckland Photo Day
D Photo - Annual Commission Yvonne Shaw
Heart of the City - Festival central
D Photo Magazine - Festival highlights - D Photo Magazine May - June 2019
Radio New Zealand - Fighting Islamophobia - Shahidul Alam
Scoop - 2019 Auckland Festival of Photography programme
The Big Idea - Deer Lighting Up Auckland's CBD
April 2019 - Media release - Auckland Festival of Photography 2019
International coverage from 2019 Festival photographers -
The New Yorker - Alejandro Cegarra - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-unflinching-view-of-venezuela-in-crisis
Punch Magazine - Shahidul Alam - http://thepunchmagazine.com/arts/photography/shahidul-alam-amp-rsquo-s-new-show-combats-islamophobia-extremism
Media 2018
Rodney Times - Photographers capture Auckland in recent Nikon competition
Scoop - Nikon Auckland Photo Day 2018 winners
Express Talks to Alex Plumb - Express
The Big Idea - Gritty sporting sub culture portrait by Nick Depree
New Zealand Herald - Nikon Auckland Photo Day winners revealed
Radio NZ - Michael Itkoff talks about Daylight Books and judging Nikon Auckland Photo Day
Media release - Gritty sporting sub culture portrait wins 2018 Nikon Auckland Photo Day
Newshub TV3 - Maggie Steber talks about her work
D-photo - Calendar
D-photo - Alejandro Chaskielberg Lighting a Labyrinth
Herald Weekend Magazine - See This 2
Herald Weekend Magazine - See this 1
A Night on the Town - Spy
Weekend Planner - NZ Herald
Our Auckland - Our Auckland
NZ Herald - Going Out
Central Leader - NZ as 100 People
Radio New Zealand - Herlinde Koelbl - Targeting People
Chinese Herald - Photo Day 2016
NZ Herald Weekend - NZ Herald Brief
Stuff - 100 Portraits NZ as a Village
D-Photo - Festival 2018 preview
Radio New Zealand - Maggie Steber - Facing Change
Radio New Zealand - Picturing former refugees: The Resettlement Portraits
Travelmag - Things to do in Auckland
Heart of the City - What's On In The City
Photojournalism Now - Festival preview by Alison Stieven Taylor
Leica Fotografie International - Festival starts
Vice - Interviews with Linda T and Kate van der Drift
Radio New Zealand - Mary Macpherson at the Festival
New Zealand Herald - Art Comes To Life in 15th Festival
Artnews New Zealand - Style With Substance - Alex Plumb
Lepetitjournal.com - Le Festival de la Photographie d'Auckland - du 31 Mai au 22 Juin
Photoforum NZ - The Visibility Paradigm
Public Address - Capture
NZ Herald brief - Annual Commission - Alex Plumb
Scoop - Full media release - Control theme expanded 2018
The Big Idea - Control theme for 2018 Festival - 15th anniversary
2018 Festival - Control theme 2018 - Media Release
D Photo - Alejandro Chaskielberg; D Photo Feature - Laberinto
Media 2017
Spring 2017 - Art News New Zealand - Action Woman
June 2017 - Sunday Star Times magazine - NZ Fashion Photogaphy exhibition - Flashback
June 2017 - NBR - Chris Corson-Scott - Photographs of our industrial past
June 2017 - North Shore Times - Teen snaps up top place in Auckland wide competition
June 2017 - The Eye of Photography - Judith Crispin - The Lumen Seed review
June 2017 - NZ Geographic - This is My Country - Ingetje Tadros
June 2017 - The Big Idea - Waka at Takapuna Beach wins
June 2017 - Scoop - Nikon Photo Day winnners
June 2017 - Stuff - Waka race wins Photo Day Prize
June 2017 - Newshub Late - Winners of Nikon Auckland Photo Day
June 2017 - Media release - Waka at Takapuna Beach image wins Nikon Auckland Photo Day 2017
JUne 2017 - RNZ Pacific - Samaon photographer explores gender identity
June 2017- Paperboy
June 2017 - NZ Herald Snap to it!
June 2017 - Stuff Teenager first entrant to Nikon Auckland Photo Day
June 2017 - Concrete Playground
June 2017 - The Big Idea talk to Chris Corson-Scott
June 2017 - NZ Herald Viva - Celebrating 85 years of NZ Fashion Photography
June 2017 - Photojournalism Now - Special Feature - Auckland Festival of Photography launches
June 2017 - RNZ Photojournalism in the smartphone age
June 2017 - Newshub Late - Festival at Silo 'Identity' exhibition
June - July 2017 D-Photo magazine - Feature Profile: Janet Lilo - Embracing Curiosity
May 2017 - Photojournalism Now - Identity at Silo 6 curated by Shahidul Alam
May 2017 - North Shore Times - Beautiful side to urban development - Bob Nelson
May 2017 - Scoop - Simon Devitt Prize 2017 - LiWen Choy
May 2017 - Art New Zealand - Emily Mafile'o
May 2017 - Scoop - Identity theme with Shahidul Alam
May 2017 - Photojournalism Now - Identity & Ata Te Tangata
May 2017 - Spasifiks Magazine - Janet Lilo, Pati Tyrell Solomona, and Tuafale Tanoa'I aka Linda T share their best ideas 
Spasifik mag
May 2017 - Framing Identity - Shahidul Alam, Janet Lilo and Chris Corson-Scott on Radio NZ.
May 2017 - The Big Idea - Silos of Identity Connect
May 2017 - Scoop - Here, Now, Then, Always at Wallace Arts Trust
May - June Issue - The Photographer's Mail - Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission Artist Announced: Janet Lilo
May/June 2017 - Metro - Dina Goldstein in Identity brief
Apr-May 2017 D-Photo magazine - 2017 Annual Commission Artist announced
May 2017 - Silos of Identity connect - Media Release 2017
April, 2017 - Identity theme explored in diverse times
March - April Issue - The Photographer's Mail - Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission finalists announced for 2017
Ata Te Tangata 2016 - Radio New Zealand - Rosanna Raymond 'Capture The People'
TV3 Newshub 2016 - Ata Te Tangata heads to China
Media Archive 2016
September, 2016 - Ata Te Tangata - NZHerald
July 14, 2016 - Howick and Pakuranga Times - Locals' photos shine
July 7, 2016 - Botany and Ormiston Times - Local Photos Make the Grade
July 2016 - Deccan Chronicle - Photographers in Focus
June 2016 - Stuff - Nikon Auckland Photo Day 2016 winners
June 2016 - Radio NZ - StJohn Milgrew and Brendan Kitto on Us and Them
June 2016 - Scoop - Image Stacked with Memories wins
June 2016 - TV3 Newshub - Winners and finalists of Nikon Auckland Photo Day competition
June 2016 - Media Release - Image Stacked in Memories wins 2016 Nikon Auckland Photo Day
June 2016 - The Urbanist - 12 Legit Things to Do
June 2016 - Stuff - David Lloyd
June 2016 - Story TV3 - The Art of Falling Apart
June 2016 - NZ Herald T J Mcnamara - Powerfully Evocative Media
June 2016 - Newshub late - The Art of Falling Apart
June 2016 - NZ Herald Viva - 29 Great Things to do in June
June 2016 - Stuff - The Art of Falling Apart
June 2016 - NZ Herald June 11 - Nikon Auckland Photo Day
June 2016 - North Shore Times story on Dust and Pinecones at Depot Artspace
June 2016 - Planet FM Kickarts interview with Simone Douglas and Sam Harris
June 2016 - WTV interview with Wen Huang, China International Press Photo
June 2016 - D Photo interview with David Lloyd "As Long As There Are Animals"
June 2016 - TV3 Newshub montage of David Lloyd "As Long As There Are Animals"
June 2016 - TV3 Newshub Ilan Wittenburg "Bare Truth"
June 2016 - RNZ Kim Hill talks to Simone Douglas about Home
June 2016 - RNZ The Wireless on Alberton "The Art of Falling Apart"
June 2016 - TV3 Newshub interview with Simone Douglas and Shan Turner-Carroll for Home exhibition .
June 2016 - The Urbanist - 21 Epic Things to do this weekend
June 2016 - TVNZ Fresh - Janet Lilo at Te Uru 'Status Update'
May 2016 - WTV - Interview with Public Participation Director, Julia Durkin about Festival 2016 and the Chinese community programme
May 2016 - Face TV 'Sky" - Discussion with Nandon Azevedo about 'New Zealanders Now; Refugees to Kiwis'.
May 2016 - Radio New Zealand - 'Standing Room Only' with Sim Chi Yin, photojournalist 'The Rat Tribe'
May 2016 - Radio New Zealand with Gael Newton at the Gus Fisher exhibitions
May 2016 - NZ Herald Weekend Magazine - 'Art Matters' article on Festival exhibition I AM by Julia Glover & Nikon Auckland Photo Day 2016
May 2016 - Metro Magazine - Feature interview with Simone Douglas, curator 'Home'
May 2016 - Western Leader - Janet Lilo - 'Exhibition presses pause on the everyday"
May 2016 - Sunday Star Times - Ilan Wittenberg's 'Bare Truth' at Northart
May 2016 - PhotoWorld, China - Feature article 'Auckland Festival of Photography; Perspective From the Edge of the World'
May 2016 - North Shore Times - Ilan Wittenberg's 'Bare Truth' at Northart
May 2016 - Art News - Peter Peryer at Melanie Roger Gallery
May 2016 - Radio New Zealand interview with Sara McIntyre
June - July 2016 DPhoto magazine - Feature Profile: Russ Flatt - Home Away From Home
May - June 2016 The Photographer's Mail - A sneak peek at the Auckland Festival of Photography line-up
May 2016 - DPhoto online - Five Minutes with Nando Azevedo
Scoop - Auckland caught in the Cloud
May 2016 - Media Release - Home exhibition exposes Aucklanders to complex reflection
Apr-May 2016 DPhoto magazine - 2016 Annual Commission Artist and Photo Day Confirmed
April 2016 DPhoto online - AFOP Programme Announced
April 2016 - Media Release - Auckland Caught in The Cloud
March - April Issue 211 The Photographer's Mail - Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission finalists announced for 2016