Photography

Photographs of the inhabitants of Stewart Island/Rakiura taken during the Covid-19 lockdown - snapped from a distance but still revealing - have been published in a new book. The photographer is… Audio, Gallery

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Diane Stoppard is a photographer who is leading the $1 million Camera Obscura project in Whangarei. It's a giant walk-in pinhole camera clad in decorative steel. Audio

Gillian & Darryl Torckler are passionate about the flora and fauna of Aotearoa, especially when it comes to making it interesting and accessible to kids. Audio, Gallery

Renowned polar photographer, director and cameraman Max Quinn covers a 50-year career spent working in the world's coldest places in his book A Life of Extremes. Quinn learned his trade as an NZBC… Video, Audio, Gallery

Peter Alsop's new book Wonderland collects some of the striking hand-coloured photographs captured around New Zealand in between the 1950s and 1970s.  Audio, Gallery

There are more tigers in captivity in the United States than there are in the wild in Asia, thanks to Americans' growing appetites for posing for photos with big cats and their cubs. National… Audio, Gallery

In 2018 photographer Guy Needham lived among the semi-nomadic Samburu people of northern Kenya, under the sacred mountain O'Lolokwe. While there, the Auckland-based photographer shot a series of… Audio

Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits, a photography-based business they set up together… Audio, Gallery

For more than 15 years, photographer Mickey Smith has prowled through libraries around the world in search of bound periodicals - like popular contemporary magazines - to snap the book spines. Audio, Gallery

A new exhibition in the Wairarapa is looking at the fashion and culture of the 60s through the lens of fashion photographer Michael Cooper. Masterton bookstore owner and publisher David Hedley of… Audio

Portraiture is one of the trickiest artforms - to get beyond the surface of a face into the soul. Photographer Marti Friedlander was an expert, and many of her black and white images - especially of… Audio, Gallery

A young woman uncovers a dark family secret, while facing an invisible battle with depression and the fight to come out the other end.

WARNING: This episode contains discussion around depression and… Audio

Today, social media has bridged the gap between distance and human connections, but at what cost? We meet a photographer-turned-influencer whose every waking moment comes with mounting pressure and… Audio

When three Australasian photographers decided to create a Zine of Covid-19 related images during the initial outbreak, they could never have guessed it would come out just as New Zealand and Australia… Audio, Gallery

The tourism downturn caused by Covid-19 has turned the ancient Thai city of Lopburi into a scene of raging warfare between roving gangs of thousands of monkeys. Photojournalist Mladen Antonov… Audio

Wildlife photographer and conservationist, Tui de Roy's latest book A Lifetime in Galapagos is an anthology of 50 years of Galapagos photography. It not only intimately captures spectacular natural… Audio, Gallery

Dr. Ashley Mears is a former fashion model turned academic sociologist. Her new book Very Important People looks at how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their… Audio

During her decade as a district nurse in King Country, Sara McIntyre got to know the people, their history and the rural settlements very well. A lifetime interest in photography led to her capturing… Audio, Gallery