Sunday 5 June, 1pm and 3pm
Paul McNamara, Director of McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, presents The Exhibition & Collection of NZ Photography Nationally & Internationally... A presentation outlining our efforts to expose creative photography to as wide an audience as possible, and to further our aim of promoting lens-based media, and exploring the range of practice.
Sascha Weidner, German fine arts photographer with Until It Hurts - Photography as a Picture of Empathy & Pictorial Narration, in conjunction with the Goethe Institut. Weidner will talk about his art and photography, which traces past events - personal records that can be integrated into his autobiographical narrative structure. The illustrated lecture will include his short film '9:48'. Recently presented in Adelaide and Sydney's Head On 2011 Festival.
Sunday 12 June • 1pm and 3pm
Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of Art History HOD at Victoria University
Geoffrey Batchen Repetition and Difference: The Dissemination of Photography
Recently appointed as Professor of Art History, Victoria University of Wellington, Geoffrey Batchen's work as a lecturer, writer and curator focuses on the history of photography. Join Professor Batchen for an illustrated talk on the effects and implications of photography's relationship to reproduction. By exploring this one crucial issue, he aims to present a way of thinking about photography that can match the extraordinary complexity of the photographic experience.
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Stephen Dupont presents Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom, a 15-year war photography retrospective, in a screening, talk and Q&A session. A Sydney photographer, he has won first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and the Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. In 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.
Sunday 19 June • 1pm and 3pm
Screenings from Magnum, London, of Burma: Behind The Conflict and The Evacuation - Paolo Pellegrin: two photo-essays.
Artist Talks at exhibitions;
Saturday 4 June • 2pm
Michael Hall, climate change photographer, talks at Whitespace. T 361 6331
Tuesday 7 June • 1pm
A talk by Paul McNamara, Director of McNamara Gallery in Whanganui, at the TSB Pah Homestead. T 639 2010
Saturday 11 June • 1pm
Warren Pringle and Jia-Yin Loo talk at TSB Pah Homestead. T 639 2010
Tuesday 14 June • 5:30-6:30pm
Artist talks at Artstation. T 376 3221
Saturday 18 June • 1pm
Olivia Garelja and Grace Chai talk at TSB Pah Homestead. T 639 2010
Saturday 18 June • 1pm
Becky Nunes and Jan Young discuss their exhibition, surface, at nkb gallery. T 623 1464
Saturday 25 June •1pm
Nick Konings talks at TSB Pah Homestead. T 639 2010.
