Andrew Ross - Early Photographs - 28 November 2025 to January 2026, Photospace Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ

Poster for Andrew Ross - Early Photographs - 28 November 2025 to January 2026

Andrew Ross recently showed me a number of photographic prints that mostly predate his earliest exhibition work (mid 1990s). I hadn't seen any of the images before, and my immediate reaction was that they needed to be exhibited.

Andrew has reprinted a few of the photos for this show but most are the original prints that he made in his darkroom, or at the commercial photo lab he worked at in the 1990s, Level III Photography owned by Mark Graham. You will see that the photographs are experimental but also show the primary direction and style that Andrew was to adopt and stick with. These photos are from 35mm and medium-format black & white film. After this, Andrew moved up to large format cameras that use 4" x 5" and later 8" x 10" sheet film. 

The exhibition opening is on Thursday evening, 27th November, 5pm-7pm. You're most welcome to come along.
The gallery will close for Christmas and New Year and reopen in early January. I'll let the exhibition run through January but it will be closed on some days due to other commitments. Please check this website photospacegallery.com and the Photospace Gallery Facebook page for updates.

Photospace Gallery has exhibited Andrew Ross' photography since early 1999. Since then he has established a reputation as one of Aotearoa's leading photographic artists. His work is in the collections of Te Papa, The Sarjeant Gallery, Auckland City Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, the Eastern Southland Gallery, and other public and private collection here and abroad. 

Photograph by Andrew Ross: David's boots, Greymouth, December 1993

Photograph by Andrew Ross: Bach, Ocean Beach, Wairarapa, early 1990s

Mark Graham's BSA Bantam, Wellington, December 1993. Photograph by Andrew Ross