Photographic Research: New Zealand

I spent 32 days in New Zealand on the South and North Islands while creating 15,240 photographs. This series of photographs is a merging of my artistic and academic skills as a visual arts researcher. It is the artful process of developing a body of photographs depicting that experience.
The visual narrative that emerged is similar to grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) used for my academic research. New Zealand told me what photographs needed to be taken and my photographic eye knew when to take the photographs from my years of experience as an artistic photographer. Each of the photographs tells a visual story and were printed and framed for exhibition at the Art Gallery of Sudbury in 2021.
I create photographic stories by allowing the experience to speak to me. I put together photography exhibitions by collecting large amounts of data (photographs), intensively editing while comparing and contrasting. As I continuously edited my photographs for months while making files in folders, I asked myself: What was my experience of New Zealand? How can
I represent this experience so that it has the feeling of what each inspiring photograph had when I took the shot? It is a reliving and recreating of experience while working with specialty silver papers to photographically tell the stories. These 14-limited edition colour archival quality giclée photographic prints are the result of my amazing New Zealand experience.
The video that I created with the Art Gallery of Sudbury can be seen at:
https://artgalleryofsudbury.myshopify.com/pages/kathy-browning-new-zealand-nouvelle-zelande

  • Start: 21 July 2021
  • End: 5 September 2021
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  • Location: N/A , , Canada
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