Auckland Festival of Photography presents Talking Culture - Photobook Panel.
The festival is pleased to bring to Auckland, for the 8th annual Photobook event - come along to see presentations from NZ artists/photographers, who have published or are in the planning/design phase for their photography books, while viewing a selection of these books in person.
This is an in-person onsite event, no online participation is available.
Presentations - 20 mins + Q&A
Daylight Books - Michael Itkoff
Michael Itkoff, USA is a publisher, consultant, and former Chief Content Officer at Britelite Immersive. Michael Co-founded the internationally-celebrated art book publishing house, Daylight as well as content experience platform, Fabl. For over twenty years Michael has been a leader in publishing both digital and print media.
Wendy Brandon
Dr Wendy Brandon will discuss a series of photobooks she made in the course of her Doctor of Fine Arts degree completed at Elam, University of Auckland, in 2024. Wendy will discuss the use of photo books to document artists' projects and as an archive.
Alice Connew
Alice Connew is a photographer and publisher whose work is exhibited regularly in Europe and Oceania. Her recent photobook Still Looking Good won the People’s Choice Award at the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards 2019 and was listed as the Best Antipodean Photobook 2019. She studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Ōtautahi, New Zealand and relocated to Bristol, UK in 2021 after almost a decade in Berlin. Alice is the co-founder of GLORIA Books, an award-winning independent art publisher.
MC: Alasdair Foster
Alasdair is a regular keynote speaker, and portfolio reviewer at Festivals around the world, he publishes regularly interviews with photographers for his Talking Pictures project, and he writes for international publications on trends in cultural development. He has curated internationally acclaimed photography exhibitions at Festivals all over the world. He is based in Brisbane.