Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross, b.1966, Masterton, is a Wellington-based photographer who has actively photographed Wellington's urban landscape since the early 1990s, with emphasis on older buildings, those which are threatened with demolition or significant renovation, and the people who make their lives or livings in the buildings. He is a keen tramper and has a great appreciation of the NZ landscape, which he also photographs. While Ross's photographic oeuvre is essentially documentary, his skill in selecting viewpoint and judging lighting, and his use of a large format camera pushes his work strongly into the sphere of fine art photography. Like Laurence Aberhart, he contact-prints his hand-developed negatives. By this process, the ultimate rendition of tonality and fine detail can be achieved by a skilled practitioner, giving each individual print a unique quality.
Andrew has photographed throughout New Zealand, with a concentration on Southland, Whanganui and Masterton, and also has smaller bodies of photography from the USA, UK and Canada.
Also see page: Andrew Ross - photos
Andrew has photographed throughout New Zealand, with a concentration on Southland, Whanganui and Masterton, and also has smaller bodies of photography from the USA, UK and Canada.
Also see page: Andrew Ross - photos
Video documentary
Andrew Ross - the past in the present
2012 video documentary by Kate Logan
Watch on Vimeo, 16 minutes approx.
2012 video documentary by Kate Logan
Watch on Vimeo, 16 minutes approx.
Collections
Works are held in a number of significant private collections in New Zealand and overseas, and in the public collections of Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, The Wellington City Council Archives, The Wellington Museum, the NZ Historic Places Trust, the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, the Eastern Southland Gallery and the Auckland City Gallery.
Photos acquired by Te Papa Tongarewa, 2010
Photos acquired by Te Papa Tongarewa, 2010
Fiat Lux - 51 photographs by Andrew Ross
Photographs: Andrew Ross
Essays by Damien Wilkins, Peter Ireland, Emma Bugden,
Karen Lee and John B.Turner. Edited by James Gilberd.
Publisher: Photospace & Victoria University Press, 2008
Hardcover, 64 pgs, 240mm x 240mm,
RRP: $50.00
Signed copies available from Photospace Gallery.
Also available in good bookshops
Photographs: Andrew Ross
Essays by Damien Wilkins, Peter Ireland, Emma Bugden,
Karen Lee and John B.Turner. Edited by James Gilberd.
Publisher: Photospace & Victoria University Press, 2008
Hardcover, 64 pgs, 240mm x 240mm,
RRP: $50.00
Signed copies available from Photospace Gallery.
Also available in good bookshops
Publications
- New Zealand Photography Collected - Athol McCredie, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2015 - review by James Gilberd
- 'Where the river bends' -group exhibition catalogue, curator: Harry Culy, University of Canterbury 2017
- See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious - Gregory O'Brien, Auckland University Press 2015
- Fiat Lux - 51 photographs by Andrew Ross - VUW / Photospace 2008, edited by James Gilberd - See books page
- Landfall #220 - Otago University Press, Nov. 2010 - portfolio of Southland photographs - info
- Land Wars - Te Tuhi, Auckland, 2008
- 14 New Zealand Photographers - PhotoForum #76, August 2008 (Editor John B. Turner) PhotoForum, Auckland
- Water - editorial + images, NZCP Journal #62, 2006/7, pub. New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington - NZCP site (defunkt)
- Portfolio: Wellington Interiors, New Zealand Journal of Photography #47, Winter 2002, pub. New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington
- Portfolio: Andrew Ross, New Zealand Journal of Photography #45, Summer 2001/02, pub. New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington
- Wellington Views: photographs by Andrew Ross: Sport #26, Autumn 2001, pub. Victoria University Press, Wellington See www.nzetc.org for complete essay text.
- Portfolio: Photographs of Newtown, New Zealand Journal of Photography #34, Summer 1999, pub. New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington
Reviews
- Shedding light on the overlooked - Mark Amery, Dominion Post, 16th October 2013
- Shifting Perspectives - Mark Amery, October 2010 (Sarjeant Gallery exhibition)
- Available Light (group exhibition) reviewed by Mark Amery
- Book review of Fiat Lux - Andy Palmer in The Lumiere Reader
- Eye Contact review by Peter Ireland, of I last saw you there
Banner ad for I last saw you there - Wellington City Gallery, (Hirschfeld Gallery) 16 April-15 May 2011
Exhibitions
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2019
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Suite of Andrew Ross commissioned photographs in 'Turn of a Century' at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, Sept 2019 to Feb 2020
'Where the river bends' photographs by Andrew Ross. Installation photo by Harry Culy.
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