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Guy Needham is an internationally published and exhibited photographer, specialising in portrait tra

28/09/2026

Already shown in Rome and Vienna, a select number of images will feature in Blank Wall's show to be held in France's Galerie Dohyang Lee in early 2027.

This image of Luata Tuala, and seven others from the Vatwa tribe of Angola, are continuing their European tour as part of a pop-up collective to be held in Paris in January.

19/09/2026

Today's Sunday Star-Times features my latest dispatch — a tale of nun-magnetism, salt harvesters, and 500 knights who took on 30,000 Ottomans. From Gozo's red sands to Valletta's armoury, check out why Malta has spent millennia being a little too easy to invade... Read it online here (paywalled) https://www.thepost.co.nz/travel/361070317/gozo-or-malta-why-these-two-islands-offer-very-different-escapes

14/09/2026

In today's New Zealand Herald travel section, Guy Needham heads to Matera — Europe's oldest inhabited settlement, once branded "the shame of Italy" for the poverty that festered in its cave dwellings, now drawing crowds for a very different reason: a recent turn as a James Bond filming location. You can read it online here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/the-reinvention-of-matera-a-labyrinth-of-cave-dwellings-and-limestone-alleys/SYFECBBCO5DMPB6DQWJFAZ6UDI/

01/08/2026

In today's Herald on Sunday's travel cover story, Guy Needham visits Procida — the quiet, colourful island in the Gulf of Naples that locals insist has none of the "boom-boom-boom" of its flashier neighbour Ischia. They're only half right.

From a taxi driver who took over the family business from her father, to a thousand-year-old abbey abandoned by monks after one too many pirate raids, there's plenty going on in Procida beyond the pastel houses on the postcards. You can read it online here

"It is very quiet here, no boom-boom-boom like Ischia."

24/06/2026

The portrait of Kanamutico of the Vatwa tribe will be on the walls of The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in its upcoming Open exhibition, to be held in the UK from 7-31 October

22/06/2026

A tribute to Chapelaria Centro da Moda, a 128-year-old hat shop

"You're not buying a hat," José told me, turning one over in his hands like he was checking for a pulse.

19/06/2026

The mother and baby from the Vatwa tribe are amongst the images selected for this year's New Zealand Camera book

13/06/2026

Last night the Dani exhibition, produced by Portugal's Incubator Gallery and MIRA Galleries, opened in Porto with photographer Guy Needham in attendance to share what it was like living with the unique tribe.

11/06/2026

06/06/2026

At the opening of The Dani of Papua, GARD Gallery, Rome last night.

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