media
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Media 2023
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, 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