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It's an incredible time
The last few months has been incredible and some really excting things have happened. Off course when life get's busy, some things have got to give and it means my newsletter had been put on the backburner. So! This is a bit of a mis-match of updates, new work and news, including a presentation for Pecha Kucha Auckland...
On Tuesday we packed up the Women's Work exhibition which ran across the weekend at the Ellen Melville Centre here in Auckland. It was such and incredible experience! Belonging to a collective of other talented female photographers, showcasing our work for a cause of changing the landscape for how women are used in advertising photography at the same time as broadening opportunities for us, is incredibly fulfilling, and I can't wait to see how it will impact the industry.
If you had a chance to go and see the images, I'd love to hear what you thought of it. My own images in the exhibition are from the second lockdown last year, and are about the anxious feeling I just couldn't shake during that time.
"We found ourselves in lockdown again.
We sought to nature to find ourselves and silence in the chaos. To find normality.
To hear the children laughing, feel the sand under our feet and the wind in our hair.
Hoping to return to a state of calm.
But what we found was not calming. It did not ease the mind and did not wash away the worry.
The chaos had followed us and we felt anxious still. It was a distorted normality."
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View more images from the Distorted Normality series on my website
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Image by Sacha Stejko for Women's Work Underexposed 2021 Campaign
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Petcha Kutcha Auckland
In case you missed my artist talk during the Women's Work exhibition, please come along to Pecha Kucha Auckland on July 14th at the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tāmaki.
I'll be doing a presentation about my work in Hiakai, personal work and more, alongside some incredible talented people. I am really excited!
Tickets via Eventbrite
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Portrait of me by Victoria Baldwin for Women's Work 2020
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Award season is well and truly here
I'm finding it hard to stay humble, because the last few months has been a rain of awards and accolades for both my personal work, client work and projects I've worked on with others.
I recently received two awards in the prestigious Pink Lady ® Food Photographer of the Year 2021, the world’s leading celebration of the art of food photography and film.
The octopus for Monique Fiso’s book Hiakai, won second in the ‘One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop’ category.
A shot taken during the grape harvest at Waiheke’s Tantalus Estate received second prize in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year’s people section.
Being recognised in the awards, which attracted over 80,000 entries this year, is a huge coup!
In a competition as tough as this one, being shortlisted let alone actually winning a category is an immense honour. I couldn’t be more proud to put New Zealand on the map in a highly regarded competition that attracts the best food photographers in the world.
In addition to this, I am also a two entry finalist in the One Club for Creativity's historic ADC 100 Awards with Hiakai again and the Behind Closed Doors series, shot during the first lockdown last year.
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Recent award wins also includes two Ockham New Zealand Book awards for Hiakai both Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction & Best 1st Book in Illustrated Non-Fiction as well as just announced last night for Hiakai Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Indigenous Book, Best Book in Oceania and is in the running for BEST BOOK!
Also Julie & Ilaria Biuso's Shared Kitchen has been recognised in Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Best in the World in the Blogger Category.
Off course the team effort of creating a book that everyone involved can be proud of, becomes so much more when all that hard work is recognised both on a local and global scale. These awards are testament to the efforts of collaboration and it's hard to get the hands down, with all this incredible recognition.
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If you made it this far... Thank you for reading! If you enjoy my work, and think of anyone who might enjoy it too, please share it via the links above ↑.
Oh, and come see me at the Pecha Kucha talk - link for tickets above.
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