The Photo Business in Dunedin
Photo Warehouse, the only dedicated photo store in Dunedin, is one of six stores nationwide.  The store moved to its current location at 140 George Street in June 2021.  This is not far from 175 George Street where John Richard Morris, a prominent, relatively early photographer had his studio  starting in the 1870s.
There are many studios and professional photographers working in Dunedin today.  James Wilson appears to have opened the first photographic studio in Dunedin in 1857, on Princes Street "adjoining the Odd Fellows' Hall;" Willam Meluish took over the business in 1860.
Photographer Derek Morrison does commercial, portrait and editorial photography and sells his fine art prints and books through Box of Light, which includes a gallery at 8 Castle Street.
RDS Gallery hosted an exhibition "Murray Eskdale: Structure" from 3 October to 1 November.  Eskdale, who came to New Zealand in 2007, runs Mint Printing, a fine art printing business in his studio in the Queens Building on Princes Street and also works as an imaging technician at the Hocken Collections; he previously ran Mint Gallery on Moray Place.
Milford Galleries hosted an exhibit of Jane Ussher's works "Still Life - Inside the Antarctic Hut of Robert Falcon Scott" from 1 - 24 November.  These are works done in 2008-9, some of which appeared in Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scotts and Shackleton (Murdoch Books, 2010).
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