TŪHURA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Tūhura Otago Museum 26 June to 12 Oct. 2025	UNUTAI E!  UNUTAI E! Dunedin Public Art Gallery 31 May to 12 Oct. 2025	A DIFFERENT LIGHT Hocken Library 20 Sept. 2025 to 7 Feb. 2026
TOITŪ OTAGO SETTLERS MUSEUM	DUNEDIN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Dunedin Community Gallery 21 Oct.  to 26 Oct. 2025	PHOTO WAREHOUSE
Printing	Matting and Framing

SUMMER

DCC ARCHIVES	TOITŪ OTAGO SETTLERS MUSEUM	HOCKEN COLLECTIONS
PLANKTON

BVA L6 Special Topic Rubric

Initial Thoughts

Aiming to Do Better:  I've been shooting on a near daily basis for decades, and think that my ability to compose a shot is solid, but I know that my technical skills, both in shooting and editing, could use a upgrade.  Although there is a tremendous amount of information on the Internet, I lack the discipline to sit down and sort through YouTube videos.  I shoot only on manual, and my percentage of good images is low; thus I often spend a lot of time sorting through several hundred images.  Secondly, I learned Photoshop decades ago, and much of what I know about editing photos I've picked up ad hoc.  When I'm editing images, for example of a tricky lighting situation, such as in an indoor gallery, I think I spend an inordinate amount of time getting the image right.  I do think I am getting better in recent months at optimizing exposures of raw images.  Finally, it is frustrating to me that for the last several decades I have spent so, so much time in front of a computer screen and have only seen my work on the screen.  Just recently, for the first time, I had three images printed and framed.  It was an expensive proposition.  In addition to improving my photographic skills, I need to work on printing and framing skills.  I envisage that a set of framed prints will be an integral part of my finished project.  Harry showed me how the printing works and Steev showed me matting and framing, but I have not followed up and done it.  Additionally, Harry showed me the studio lighting, but I have not done it solo.   I need to think of or get involved in a project that will allow me to work on this.  In sum, I am hopeful that Otago Polytechnic will push me to improve my process and outcomes.  Dec. 2024-Jan 2025 visit  |  earlier draft

 

Notes

7 October  Several influential New Zealand photographers: Burton brothers [Walter John Burton (1836-1880) and Alfred Henry Burton (1834-1914)  ...firm closed in 1916] Hardwicke Knight. 'Burton, Alfred Henry', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b51/burton-alfred-henry (accessed 14 October 2025). Burton Bros - Through the King Country with the Camera - Early New Zealand Photographers and their successors Christine Whybrew.  "'Reading' Photographs: Burton Brothers and the Photographic Narrative."  Journal of New Zealand Studies, Issue No. 12 (2011, pp. 77-89. Pitt Rivers Museum exhibition (2018) Photographic conservation of the Burton Brothers collection | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Hocken Library ReCollect digital archival: Alfred Burton -186 results  | Burton Brothers (Firm) - 694 results Robin Morrison [1944-1993] John Bates.  "Sense of Place: Robin Morrison, Photographer," 1993 documentary (NZ on Screen) Geoff Chapple.  "'That's A Robin Morrison Shot."  New Zealand Geographic Rhodda Bosworth.  "Robin Morrison."  Art New Zealand Robin Morrison - {Suite} Gallery Ans Westra [1936-2023] Photographer: Ans Westra - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Washday at the Pa controversy - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Paul Diamond.  "Ans Jacoba (Ans) Westra (1936-2023)."  National Library of New Zealand,  3 March 2023 @answestra ["Managed by @d.alsop for the late Dutch-New Zealand photographer. The Ans Westra Vault on Courtenay Place in Wellington is open by appointment."] 10 best photographs Readings: Susan Sontag.  "On Photography" in "Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society," pp. 174-8. George Baker.  "Photography's Expanded Field."  October 114, Fall 2005, pp. 120-40. Mark Bolland.  "The Photographer as Collector."  Art New Zealand, Summer 2016-17, pp. 70-73. Graham Clarke.  The Photograph.  Oxford University Press, 1997. "New Zealand Law Relating to Photography."  Clendons Barristers & Solicitors. David Campany.  "Introduction//When to be Fast? When to be Slow?"  pp. 10-17. Susan Sontag.  "In Plato's Cave"from On Photography. Delta Books, 1977, pp. 3-24. related: Graeme Williams.  "Susan Sontag - Not the last word On Photography."  Photographic Conversations, 2024.