Press Release – Auckland Festival of Photography Isolation and participation are elements underpinning 2021’s Auckland Festival of Photography, at 50 regional venues/locations, including Auckland’s waterfront during June. AFP’s isolation theme explores Covid-19’s impact on NZ and international communities and how we look to photographers to navigate the difficult questions that isolation, and emerging from it, can present. “As naturally social animals, humans living in a state of isolation suggests an abnormal circumstance or tragedy. A space of aloneness can suddenly be filled with the difficult questions in life too profound to confront in company, a space in which creativity can flourish. This is perhaps why we reserve a certain mythical and mystical belief in the isolated artist. We believe they have confronted the questions.”