Photography
Anthony Phelps - NZ Punk
A new book has been published looking at the history of the punk scene in Auckland in the 20th century. From AK79 to the Class of 81 tracks the world of the punk scene through the eyes of the then… Audio
New York City from all angles
At the end of 2019 Dunedin three artists went to New York to explore the city, and capture different scenes - from different perspectives. Little did they know they were visiting just before the city… Audio
Lissa Mitchell: stories of early women photographers
Bringing the stories of early women photographers in New Zealand out of the dark and into the light is the task Lissa Mitchell has set herself. In the Dark: women and New Zealand photography to 1960… Audio
Pioneering Kiwi nature photographer Olaf Petersen
A collection of tens of thousands of photographs by Kiwi photographer and photojournalist Olaf Petersen is one of five new additions to the New Zealand Memory of the World Register. Most of Olaf's… Audio, Gallery
From New York to Christchurch - photography of Larence Shustak
When photographer Larence Shustak moved to Christchurch from the United States in 1973, he found what he called "a city full of eccentrics", and for that reason he felt right at home! He immediately… Audio
Photographer Bruce Connew: NZ's colonial memorials
Acclaimed war photographer Bruce Connew has turned his lens on to our country's colonial memorials to document "a vocabulary of colonisation". His exhibition A Vocabulary at Te Uru Gallery in… Audio, Gallery
Lisa Woollett: mudlarking and the stories of what we throw away
Lisa Woollett is a photographer and award winning author with a passion for beachcoming and mudlarking, and telling the stories of what we throw away. Her latest book, Rag and Bone, explores her own… Audio, Gallery
Lockdown images from Stewart Island
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
Diane Stoppard: Whangarei's giant pinhole camera
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
Exploring nature, night & day
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
Max Quinn: The life and times of a polar film maker
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
The unsung heroes behind the hand-painted photos of NZ's past
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
Steve Winter: Revealing the dark side of America's private zoos
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
Through the lens: the Samburu people of Kenya
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
Whakapapa through portraiture: Taaniko Nordstrom
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
Photographer Mickey Smith remembers "bound periodicals"
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
The Spirit of the 60s: the photography of Michael Cooper
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
Marti Friedlander's Portraits of Artists
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
An Invisible Battle: Coping with Mental Distress
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
