Category Archives: Photography

Pic Me Up

February 3rd, 2011
Fun for fans of pho­to­graphy: the final­ists in the Sony World Photo Awards have been announced. Of course, the sub­ject mat­ter depic­ted in the images are not always fun, per se. Images in the cur­rent affairs cat­egory (in which fea­tures Robin Ham­mond, who ori­gin­ally hails from NZ) present a more sober­ing visual mes­sage. A gal­lery of [...]
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Lucky Brake

November 30th, 2010
Archi­tec­ture New Zea­l­and editor John Walsh rumin­ates on Brian Brake: Lens on the World, pub­lished to coin­cide with an exhib­i­tion of the same name. Review pub­lished in ProDesign 109, with addi­tional images cour­tesy of Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary and Brian Brake Estate. This hand­some book, pub­lished to accom­pany a Te Papa exhib­i­tion, chron­icles the pro­fes­sional career [...]
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Win­ning with Tetris

November 26th, 2010
Auckland-based pho­to­grapher Rory Carter was recently selec­ted as one of Lürzerʼs Archive Best 200 Ad Pho­to­graph­ers World­wide for 2010/2011. The shot's selec­ted by Lürzer were from this Tetris-referencing cam­paign for the New Zea­l­and Army (orches­trated by Saat­chi and Saat­chi Wel­ling­ton), and it's fairly eas­ily to see why the South African-born pho­to­grapher made the cut amongst [...]
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Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair

June 18th, 2010
Unless it's design-related, we don't gen­er­ally get into event pro­mo­tion here at ProDesign Towers. Of course, one shouldn't get stuck in a bubble, espe­cially when inter­est­ing promo shots such as these fall across your desk. If the Auck­land and Wel­ling­ton ver­sions of Verdi's Macbeth, by Opera North, look half as good as these pho­tos then even I might [...]
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Phil­lip Simpson: Portraits

June 2nd, 2010
We like a good por­trait here at ProDesign, and over the past dec­ade or so Phil­lip Simpson has shot more than his fair share. Simpson is a pro­fes­sional pho­to­grapher who gained much of his inter­na­tional exper­i­ence in the UK, before return­ing to NZ in 2006. He says he's per­haps best known for cre­at­ing "con­tem­por­ary images of people, [...]
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Nature is a Maybe

May 27th, 2010
In Nature is a Maybe, on now at the Gow Langs­ford Gal­lery emer­ging pho­to­grapher Simon Devitt brings together a col­lec­tion of pho­to­graphs that detail the spaces we inhabit. While work­ing largely within the realm of tra­di­tional archi­tec­tural pho­to­graphy (as seen on the pages of Urbis, Archi­tec­ture NZ and ProDesign), Devitt's images exploit the phys­ical fea­tures of his [...]
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New Zea­l­and wins Sport at World Photo Awards

April 23rd, 2010
New Zea­l­and pho­to­grapher Scott Bar­bour was yes­ter­day announced the win­ner of the Sport cat­egory at the 2010 Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards. Bar­bour received his award at the Sony World Pho­to­graphy Awards Cere­mony at the Pal­ais des Fest­ivals in Cannes, France. Barbour's win­ing series of images, entitled “Aus­tralian Open Ten­nis”, was chosen from over 80,000 entries from [...]
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Near & Far

February 4th, 2010
Cel­eb­rat­ing big and small – with a difference. Photo gal­lery time. Here are two series of images that were recently brought to my atten­tion. The pho­to­grapher, Elam-graduate Hil­ary Upton, used some inter­est­ing tech­niques to achieve quite dif­fer­ent results. The first series of images is com­prised of tex­tured land­scape shots of iconic build­ings. The shots, vari­ously entitled Find me [...]
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Pho­to­graphy: I See You There

January 22nd, 2010
Notions of space Pho­to­grapher Simon Devitt cov­ers a fair bit of ground in the pur­suit of his archi­tec­tural sub­ject mat­ter. Many read­ers will have seen his work on the pages of Archi­tec­ture NZ, Urbis, land­scape Archi­tec­ture NZ and, indeed, ProDesign. To be fair, those mags are all from the same AGM stable, but what the heck, a little self-promotion [...]
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Envir­on­mental Pho­to­grapher of the Year

September 28th, 2009
Talk About Stars A selec­tion of images from the CIWEM Envir­on­mental Pho­to­grapher of the Year.
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