Beautiful pictures in Auckland Pageant of Photography exhibition seize snapshots of historical past

On show from May 27 to June 21 at Auckland’s Queens Wharf, the images mirror this 12 months’s theme, Movement (Kori), which will likely be explored by way of a mixture of exhibitions and public occasions.

“To photograph movement is to acknowledge nothing stands still – that light shifts, people migrate, animals traverse, that the Earth itself is in constant motion,” says Julia Durkin, who based the competition in 2004.

“The still image becomes paradoxical: a pause within motion, a fragment of time that continues to move within us.”

International exhibitions embody a vibrant collection by photojournalist Shen Chao-Liang documenting the “transformer-style” cell stage vehicles that journey throughout Taiwan.

Japanese photographer Mayumi Suzuki’s eight-year venture, The Tide’s Gift, weaves collectively the previous, current and way forward for her hometown, Onagawa, which was worn out by a tsunami in 2011.

On May 31, Chao-Liang, Hideko Kataoka of Newsweek Japan, Polish curator Grzegorz Dabrowski and NZ Herald visible journalist Jason Dorday will participate in Talking Culture, a panel dialogue on photojournalism and documentary pictures.

The competition additionally hosts the Aotearoa Music Photography Awards. Online voting for the People’s Choice Award is open by way of the web site (competition.org.nz) till May 29.

See Canvas journal for artist Linda Gilbert’s reminiscences of her brother, the late photographer Paul Gilbert, and the exhibition she has curated from his Road People collection on the 70s house-truck motion.