Mary Hutchinson - 'Digital' - Photography exhibition opens Saturday 13th April, runs to 4th May 2024 at Photospace Gallery, Wellington

Mary Hutchinson 'Digital' poster, Photospace Gallery 13 April-4 May 2024

This exhibition has been extended: Monday 6th to Thursday 9th May, 10am to 2pm only.

'Digital' opens on Saturday 13th April, 11.30am-2pm in gallery room 1 along with vintage photographs of Johnsonville in the 1960s by John  B. Turner. Both exhibitions run till 4th May 2024.

 'Digital' - Mary Hutchinson
 
"Human hands and feet, with their tones, textures and associated adornments, are recurring themes in my street photography. The variety of interacting gestures, skin surfaces, jewellery, body art, clothing, and objects such as bags, toys, and pets, which we carry around with us in public, have always intrigued and drawn me in. 
  
"Such detailed observation perhaps echoes my previous work as a doctor, and my lifelong passion for up-close exploration and noticing in the natural world. 
 
"Whilst photographing personal human details, I fleetingly experience moments of connectedness to my subjects; focusing in on the poignant visual stories ‘told’ by hands, feet, clothing and decoration. In these instances, I feel in some ways that my hands, holding my carried camera or phone, mirror what is going on with the hands, and even feet of my subjects, as they, like me, go about their daily journeys in the street. "
 

Photograph: Mary Hutchinson, from her 'Digital' series