Shelton began her career as a photojournalist working for daily newspapers, before deciding she wanted more control over her images and deciding to go to art school. As an artist, her work mixes conceptual and narrative traditions of photography. In large-scale, hyper-real photographs she explores histories of people and of places, often bringing forgotten or controversial histories to light. Shelton has also shown a steady interest in the nature of the archive, exploring the collections of others in her work. Shelton first came to attention with the series Redeye. Selected from thousands of photographs taken over a period of two years, the work document Auckland's art scene and its gallery openings, performances and underground events, especially those taking place around the artist-run space Teststrip. Described by the artist as a 'social diary', the series was described by Auckland Art Gallery photography curator Ron Brownson as 'some of the most inventive and risk taking in recent art in New Zealand'. A recent series, jane says, created for her 2016 exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Dark Matter, features plants traditionally associated with treatments for women's fertility placed in ikebana-like arrangements against vibrant coloured backgrounds. The artist spent a year researching, collecting, arranging and photographing the plants, which include thistle, fennel, rhododendron and yarrow.

Conversations with NZ Photographers

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers - Ann Shelton (av)

Jono Rotman in conversation about his book Mongrelism. Check out the review of the book by Peter Black for Photoforum in 2019 https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2019/8/28/mongrelism-reviewed

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers - Jono Rotman

The cornerstones of Tim’s practice are the psychological landscape and social-political environment. His work straddles the genres of fine art and documentary photography. He is currently engaged in long-term projects relating to the aftermath of Christchurch’s devastating 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Tim lectures in photography at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand. He is the director and administrator of Place in Time: The Christchurch Documentary Project.

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers - Tim Veling

A conversation with artist photographer, Caroline McQuarrie. Lecturer at Massey University. Her work looks at home, making, domestic, West Coast of NZ.

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers - Caroline McQuarrie

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers - Edith Amituanai

A conversation with New Zealand Photographer and prolific photobook creator, Harvey Benge, from his home in Auckland. Harvey talks about Paris Photo, the small world of international art photography, hanging out with Paul Graham, Martin Parr and Rineke Dijkstra and everyone else who matters.

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Derek Henderson

A chat with the UK turned Wellington based photographer, Joseph Kelly. Joseph is from Kent in England, he went to study photography in Brighton and after a bit of messing about on cruise ships and at old skool photo labs he moved to Wellington with his Kiwi wife. From Wellington he started off assisting and slowly built up to be one of the leading New Zealand advertising photographers. He came in for a chat in 2018 about his time at University and starting out again in Wellington.

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers Joseph Kelly

Mary is a long time member and face behind Photoforum. She came in for a visit in May 2018 to mainly talk about her (then) recent book, THE LONG VIEW (amongst other bodies of work she has completed). Mary is a quiet, thoughtful person which is embodied in her images and poetry.

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers Mary Macpherson

David Cook is a lecturer in Photography at Massey University in Wellington. Between 1984 and 2004 he made repeat visits to a mining community which was turned into the amazing social document, Lake of Coal - The Disappearance of a Mining Township. The dedication to the project and selfless ability to produce collaborative work enabled him to create an essential piece of social history.

Conversations with New Zealand Photographers David Cook

Short conversations with photographers in New Zealand.

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Conversations with NZ Photographers

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