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John Ward Knox s Fathom on Fathom at Robert Heald Gallery. Photography has a way of telling the truth more than most art forms. Yet it can equally deconstruct or offer one perspective in a moment in time. As an art form it can document reality and completely distort it. It communicates something taken from reality meshed with the photographer’s view and intention, and with that it documents a perspective of history. The arrival of photography to Aotearoa came with Te Tiriti o Waitangi around 1841. Storytelling and song were customary ways of documenting experiences that photographs couldn t replace, but over time these things became less prominent. And yet communication and language are often nonverbal. Sometimes a photograph responding to writing, song or language can add depth to both mediums. ....
The work of Terry Stringer and Richard McWhannell in conversation at Bowen Galleries. Arihia Latham spends some summer lunch hours going down hallways and up staircases to a few of Cuba Street’s small galleries Walking down the cool, narrow hallway to Bowen Galleries on Ghuznee Street, to an exhibition of new work by established artists Terry Stringer and Richard McWhannell, I realised how awkward I still feel taking that first step into the hush of a gallery. A small part of me doesn’t feel like I belong. It can take courage to walk in, or upstairs to a small gallery not open to the street. For some it doesn’t feel like their space. ....