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PhotoForum Inc. is a non-profit society dedicated to the promotion of photography as a means of communication and expression.

16/10/2026

FOTOFEST is the annual photography festival for the region. Exhibitions, competitions, workshops and more, held in Hawke's Bay over three weeks.

10/10/2026

Bidding open now:
The Personal Collection of John B Turner
Webb’s Online Auction
08 - 15 October 2026
https://auctions.webbs.co.nz/auctions/catalog/id/937?_gl=1%2A117t3nu%2A_gcl_au%2AMTQ5NTkzNDIyNi4xNzkxMzI0NTM4%2A_ga%2AMTk5MTU3Njg2OS4xNzkxMzI0NTM3%2A_ga_7LHXM2NMPS%2AczE3OTE0OTg0MDgkbzIkZzEkdDE3OTE0OTg0MjckajQxJGwwJGgxNTM1MzQyOTYw

29/09/2026

Group Show: Place Time Relations
Opening event: Friday 2 October, 5 - 7pm
Wendy Bornholdt, Karen Crisp, Robert Curd, Neil Finlay, Roy Goodwin, Zahra Killeen-Chance & Solomon Mortimer, Theo Macdonald, Jake Morton, Tony Nyberg, Yitz Peralta Ramirez, Hannah Rose, Yvonne Shaw, Carly Van Winkel

Toi o Wairaka
Unitec, Building 108, Carrington Road, Mt Albert, Auckland
5 - 23 October 2026

https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/place-time-relations-toi-o-wairaka-2026

14/09/2026

PhotoForum Book and Zine launch
Thursday 17 September , 6pm
SKAR Image Lab
1 New Bond Street, Kingsland, Auckland

PhotoForum #107: Paris Munro - A Call Towards Home
PhotoForum #108: Jake Morton - Constellation

Plus Zines by Hannah Arnold, Cheska Brown, Aileen Chen, Malory Campbell, Millie Dunstall, Tess Elliot, Victor Staaf, and Christian Turner from the recent PhotoForum Zine workshop.

https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/photoforum-107-and-photoforum-108-book-launch

09/09/2026

05/09/2026

Opening at Charles Ninow Fine Art, Friday 11 September:

Gil Hanly
Charles Ninow Fine Art
First Floor, La Gonda Building, 203 Karangahape Rd, Auckland
11 September - 17 October 2026
Preview Friday 11 September, 6 - 8pm
(Note, some publicity has listed an incorrect date for the preview, we have verified that it is Friday 11 September.)

Gil Hanly Charles Ninow Fine Art First Floor, La Gonda Building, 203 Karangahape Rd, Auckland 11 September - 17 October 2026 Preview Friday 11 September, 6 - 8pm

29/08/2026

In just over a month’s time we will have so much happening you might not be able to keep up with it all!
Sign up to our enews so you don’t miss our announcements in more detail, including locations to view all our exhibitions.
http://eepurl.com/hZScir

Just a snippet of what’s on during FOTOFEST :

1️⃣ Exhibitions from more than 60 local, national and international photographers.

2️⃣ Small World by much respected UK 🇬🇧 photographer Martin Parr, showing at Creative Arts Napier for the first time in New Zealand

3️⃣ Talks by a number of photographers on their work from street and travel photography to lighting and architecture.

4️⃣ Workshops from pin hole to pet photography, plus one exclusively for young creatives.

5️⃣ Napier city camera 📷 walks with two local photographers and Art Deco Napier

6️⃣ Cycles 🚲 and 📷 rides

7️⃣ Coffee and Cameras meet ups ☕️

8️⃣ I AM MARTIN PARR exclusive free screening at Creative Arts Napier during Nuit Blanche Napier

3.5 weeks exclusively in Hawke’s Bay, charge your batteries, pack the car 🚗 📷and plan your trip!

09/08/2026

What an amazing weekend of photobooks, photozines, exhibitions, discussions and catching up with the Aotearoa photo community.
Thanks to all at photobooknz for organising another great event. It was fab to launch our two new books, Paris Munro’s A Call Towards Home and Jake Morton’s Constellation (pictured) and to showcase the work from our inaugural zine workshop.

We had a blast!!

Jake Morton
Paris

06/08/2026

Zine workshop

In June PhotoForum hosted a series of zine workshops with a curated group of eight artists, who have all been producing and exhibiting contemporary photographic work in Auckland. The workshops were facilitated by PhotoForum committee members Theo Macdonald and Yvonne Shaw and were made possible by a generous grant from the Moïse Cretney Family.

The workshop series included talks and feedback sessions by significant Aotearoa artists and book designers including Bryce Galloway, Fiona Lascelles & Tony Nyberg, Katie Kerr and Jonty Valentine, with support by Karen Crisp and David Cowlard.

The cohort of artists / zine-makers are: Hannah Rose Arnold, Cheska Brown, Malory Campbell, Aileen Chen, Millie Dunstall, Tess Elliott, Victor Staaf, and Christian Turner.

All the zines produced during the workshop will be on sale at the photobook fair at PhotobookNZ this Saturday.

photobooknz
Aileen
Victor Staaf
Tess Walker Elliott
christian turner,
Cheska Brown
Millie Dunstall

Hannah Rose Arnold

18/07/2026

PhotoForum presents the third of a new series of online exhibitions for 2026.

Tink Lockett’s 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂
with an essay by Clare Gemima

“Most of us inherit some version of the family album, whether carefully assembled or loosely accumulated—a collection that both anchors and unsettles our sense of self, and of those who made us. There are also photographs we keep close, even sleep beside for years, and ones strewn amongst others we would rather bury altogether that can’t be returned to without the need to pour a (very) strong drink. These attachments are not incidental. They point to a photograph’s capacity to hold conflict as much as memory, two conditions boldly remixed across Tink Lockett’s collages” – Clare Gemima (from the essay accompanying Tink Lockett’s online exhibition)

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Tink Lockett
Clare Gemima

PhotoForum Online Exhibitions feature the work of emerging and established artists/photographers alongside newly commissioned writing.

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