Connections - Resilience 2020
Calling all Auckland photographers!
Queens Wharf’s Connections photography exhibition, expertly mentored and curated by internationally-renowned photographer Tom Ang, is back for a seventh year.
With a free six-week mentorship programme and group exhibition on Queens Wharf, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Tom will mentor, advise and guide a group of ten photographers to create a stunning exhibition of photography. With the theme this year being Connections - Resilience, there’s sure to be a varied and compelling range of artwork on display.
Participants will attend a six-week mentor programme every Monday evening from 6.15-8.00pm in Auckland from 5 October to 9 November. In order to take full advantage of this mentoring programme, you must be able to attend the first and the last sessions, as well as at least three of the other meetings.
Connections – Resilience is sponsored by Panuku Development Auckland with Tom Ang. We invite enthusiastic, hard-working photographers of any level and age to apply and there is no cost to participate.
The exhibition will take place on the Queens Wharf fence-line from 7 December 2020 through to autumn 2021.
If you’re interested, please send us an email answering the questions below, along with 3 – 5 images you have taken by 18 September 2020, 12pm. Tom and the Panuku panel will review applications and select the successful participants. Applicants will be contacted on 28 September 2020, and successful photographers will be announced that evening.
To apply, please answer the following questions and email your response to yourwaterfront@panuku.co.nz.
Name:
Email:
Phone number:
Website, social media or online portfolio if applicable:
1. Please tell us about yourself in 100 words or fewer.
2. Why are you keen to be involved in this year’s Connections: Resilience mentorship and exhibition?
3. Are you available to attend six Monday meetings in Auckland CBD over a seven-week period between Monday 5 October to Monday 9 November 2019? (includes one cancellation date). Please note, if Auckland is in any Covid alert level that does not allow physical group meetings, we will arrange to hold virtual meetings.
Please indicate which days you can attend:
5 October (must attend)
12 October
19 October
26 October
2 November
9 November (must attend)
Please attach 3 – 5 of your own photographs
The small print:
1. Panuku Development Auckland respects your copyright. All photographs which you create remain your copyright. In return for their support of this project, you allow Panuku Development Auckland, without charge to use images made for this project for the purpose of promoting and publicizing this project.
2. Due to Tom’s busy schedule, he has committed to five Mondays in the dates stipulated above; however, which five out of six he can attend will be subject to his travel schedule and we will endeavor to inform participants as soon as possible. He will be there for the first and last meeting.
3. Applicants affirm and declare that all images submitted with the application is their own work and not of anyone else’s.
Entries in by 18 September 2020, 12pm please.
About Tom Ang
Sony NZ Digital Imaging Ambassador
HIPA Content Producer Award 2019
Tom is a world-renowned photographer, author, educator, broadcaster.
He has given photography workshops worldwide - from Hungary to Philippines, from Dubai to Singapore. He has written over 40 books on photography including the best-selling Digital Photographer’s Handbook, published in twenty languages, Digital Photography Masterclass was named The Crème De La Crème of the Top Digital Imaging Books of 2008 by Shutterbug Magazine, his Photography – the definitive visual history has also been singled out for awards. He won the Thomas Cook Award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his book on the Marco Polo Expedition.
He was technical editor of Camera magazine, editor of Photography magazine, picture editor of The Sunday Correspondent Magazine and correspondent to numerous photography magazines. He was Senior Lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for 12 years (photography, digital photography, journalism and design at undergraduate and masters level) and led the BA Photography and MA Photographic Journalism courses.
He has juried on major competitions such as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, World Photography Awards and Hamdan International Photography Award.
The Programme
26 August 2020 – call for photographers
18 September 2020, 12pm – applications close
End September 2020 - candidates informed of outcome
5 October 2020 – mentorship commences and participants shoot images (6 weeks)
9 November 2020 – mentorship concludes
9 November 2020 – Photograph selection commences
7 December 2020 – Exhibition opens
