Presented in partnership with Auckland Festival of Photography 2023. In response to the theme this year for the Auckland Festival of Photography, RESISTANCE, NZ Herald photographers share their work in the 2023 Festival.
NZ Herald photographers were thrown literally into resisting the elements with early weather events starting immediately after the New Year. The surprise weather deluge on the Friday night of the Auckland Anniversary weekend saw Dean Purcell, the Herald's Chief photographer, completely enveloped by events (like many Aucklanders), whilst battling through traffic to get to cover the second attempt at Elton John performing in NZ, after Sir Elton cancelled in 2020 due to ill health. Instead Dean started to work in challenging circumstances capturing news images of unsuspecting motorists' abandoning vehicles on Auckland's motorways and concertgoers trying any means possible to get out of the city and home.
At some of the West Coast beaches of Piha, Karekare and Muriwai the impacts were still being tallied 2 weeks later as Cyclone Gabrielle hit and plunged these areas and the East Coast of the country into complete disaster. Whitianga and the rest of the Coromandel saw startling flooding again which bought down a state highway, and threatened a much-loved Yachting Club. In Gisborne/Tairawhiti and in the Hawkes Bay the devastation was palpable. Emergency Services and communities have dug deep ... one of the ways the NZ Herald photographers have documented these community responses to these nationally significant weather events throughout the summer and other events closer to home .... a snippet of these images will be showcased during the Auckland Festival of Photography.
FREE
Resistance - NZME Visual Journalists
In-Venue
Silo 6 • 25 May - 11 June
Hours
11am-4pm 7 days (*please note Noon opening on Mon 29 May)
Where
Silo Park, Beaumont St, Wynyard Quarter
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Artists
Alex Burton | Michael Craig | George Heard | Mark Mitchell | Jason Oxenham | Dean Purcell | Mike Scott Sylvie Whinray | Hayden Woodward
Theme
Dean Purcell, NZ Herald - Sth Western motorway, Auckland, January 27th floods
Mike Scott, NZ Herald - Sandbags, Whitianga - Cyclone Hale
Dean Purcell, Umbrellas, Rain
Dean Purcell, British activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker is escorted from Albert Park where she was holding a rally as trans-rights supporters close in. 25 March 2023 New Zealand Herald photograph.