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'Selective Exposure' group exhibition at Photospace Gallery, 16th October - 7th November 2015

11/9/2015

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Selective Exposure
 
Reflecting back on the last quarter century, so much has seemingly changed, happened. Technologies emerged that fundamentally altered the way we do things, the methods by which we gather and disseminate information, and how we communicate. This last quarter century is also notable for the technological restructuring of photography by digital processes that now dominate the industry (Photoshop 1.0 was launched 19 February 1990). Less perceptible, but perhaps more important, are shifts in values attached to things and ideas, like the value of art, education, institutions, their ideologies.

This exhibition samples images from recent projects by photographers who have graduated over the past 25 years from New Zealand tertiary art education, and who majored in the specialist medium of photography. All photographs were made with analogue film technology and loosely fall into the field of extended ‘documentary’, with subjects carefully sought from specific environments of the photographers’ choosing.

The selection is not an attempt to suggest a collective attitude, or a stylistic manifesto. Nor is this an attempt to weave a larger narrative using the threads of individual pursuits. It was based on a question why such a seeming anachronism as film photography is still consistently used by a diverse range of graduates from different New Zealand art schools and over such a long period. 
- Haruhiko Sameshima, October 2015


'Selective Exposure' exhibition curated by Haruhiko Sameshima for Photospace Gallery, Wellington New Zealand, October 2015, photographs by Caryline Boreham, Conor Clarke, Peter Evans, Shelley Jacobson, Julius Margan, Asumi Mizuo, Solomon Mortimer, Stephen Roucher, Shigero Takato, Tim J Veling
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'Selective Exposure' includes photographs by Caryline Boreham, Conor Clarke, Peter Evans, Shelley Jacobson, Julius Margan, Asumi Mizuo, Solomon Mortimer, Stephen Roucher, Shigero Takato, Tim J Veling. The exhibition is supported by a grant from Creative New Zealand, and Rim Books is a sponsor.
The text by Haruhiko Sameshima was updated on 12/10/2015.

Review

Peter Ireland's review of 'Selective Exposure' on the EyeContact site.
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Photography shows

5/9/2015

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Copied from the Photospace Gallery Facebook page

I'm pleased with amount of wallspace Wellington City Gallery has given to photography lately (a medium that it has always taken seriously) so I'm grateful to see Fiona Pardington's exhibition 'A Beautiful Hesitation' here. Yvonne Todd's 'Creamy Psychology' show was a highlight, and Jono Rotman's recent portrait exhibition and the Photo Forum survey show were also most welcome. But I do think Peter Ireland's review raises many concerns, which is why I posted this link to his review here (not something I'm in the habit of using this page for - it's more for promotion of Photospace Gallery and its artists). Link below.

It would be great to see a fresh, curated show concerned with the medium and practise of photograhy in NZ as a whole, as we haven't seen such a thing since Imposing Narratives (1989, Wellington City Gallery, which included Fiona Pardington's work).

The best such survey exhibition of recent times was 'Pictures they want to make' curated by Edward Hanfling and Chris Corson-Scott, but this show didn't make it to Wellington, sadly. (It's not too late!) The exhibition was shown at Northart, Auckland, in May-June 2013, (titled 'Recent Auckland Photography', which may have limited its uptake by other galleries, sadly). The exhibition highlighted a sea change in photographic art practise and deserves national viewing.

'Fiona Pardington's Artful Photography' - review by Peter Ireland for EyeContact

'Photography at Northart' discussion on Eyecontact

List of City Gallery photography exhibitions, (from McNamara Gallery site)
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