More Waitangi Images

The Tainui Waka from the Waikato

The group of 15-20 Waka about to launch off Te Ti Beach

My Kapa Haka buddies and Paul Henry just after performing live on the Breakfast Show

Its an awesome festival with a happy family vibe, lots of fun activities for the kids to do.

The busy Treaty Grounds at midday on Waitangi Day.

A Northland Experience

For the past January I got a job working at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. At this time of year the area is busy and leading up to Waitangi Day it gets quite hectic! I was doing all kinds of odd jobs in the visitors centre and up on the grounds. It was a good experience for me and I learned alot about the history and significance of the place, our nations birthplace. I had the opportunity to do the photography for the 4 day Waitangi Festival and Waitangi Day which was awesome! I will upload a few pics now and some more as time goes on. Hopefully I can base a project on some of these images.

One of the many concerts on throughout the festival, Ray Woolf.

The big Waka on Hobson's Beach


The Flag Lowering Ceremony performed by the Royal NZ Navy

The Waka Boys on Te Tii Beach

South East Asia Travels

I have recently been travelling in Thailand for a month. I had a really amazing time and it was my first time in South East Asia so it was a real eye opener. I took lots of photos on my way and I will upload some over the next few days.

View from our Room in Koh Tao.

A lagoon we climbed to on Railay, Krabi

Long Tail Boat at Tonsai.

Sunset at Tonsai, Krabi.

This is a bay on the west side of Koh Tao, amazing rock formations and precariously positioned Hut.

Waterfall on Koh Phangan, we drove scooters down a very rough dirt road to get here.

The road we took the scooters on.

Long Tail boats on Tonsai Beach, Krabi.

More Exhibition Images

Heres a few more photos from my exhibition the day after the opening. It looks quite different without all the people and food everywhere.

Heres the exhibition title and the corner projection. I utilised the corner of the room to accentuate the motion effect of my video clip.

Exhibition opening!

Heres a few shots from my first Solo Exhibition opening. It went really well and there were lots of good people, good food, and a few wines went down nicely. I sold a few prints which was a bonus and got lots of good comments.

All that preparation works payed off!

Photographer research

Moses Berkson is not your average surf photographer. He chooses to cover the improvised secrecy of surfing’s territoriality—the engineering of paths that lead to places that only true surfers know about. The artist has the ability to evoke the most ephemeral moments of the environment’s varying qualities of light, thus engaging the viewer to question his own notions of actuality and space, as well as universal temporality. Berkson’s first solo US exhibition, Coastal Access at The Constant Gallery, is a document of the photographer’s ongoing relationship with his home state of California. Recognizing that regionalism is ultimately a socially constructed notion, Berkson incorporates intimations of localism and physiologically recluse spatialities of non-places vis-à-vis emerging contentions of authenticity, artificiality and conflation in his captured moments. Without disclosing the locations of these elsewheres, he manifests historical apocrypha amidst the proliferating breeds of the feigning and the desiring. Coastal Access runs November 1 through November 29, 2008.
http://mosesberkson.com/

This guy's work sounds interesting and inspiring for my work. Coastal access is a big issue for us Northlanders and even down here in Dunedin you are starting to see areas of the natural coastline being sold to foreign (and local) people who restrict access to beaches etc. Its a key issue for surfers and anyone who loves the coast.

Other Invite

I think I like this one better, better colours.