Gus Fisher have put together an interesting and varied public programme to celebrate The Auckland Festival of Photography. They will also be hosting the historical exhibition George Chance: Improving on Nature and Perpetual Verdure: Landscape Photographs from The University of Auckland Art Collection. Also photographers Margaret Dawson, Anne Shelton and others will speak about their practice. See below for Public Programme details...

Image: Margaret Dawson's talk at Gus Fisher is titled 'A Chance beginning' and will discuss works from the Bryndwr Lakes series (detail; right).
Gus Fisher have put together an interesting and varied public programme to celebrate The Auckland Festival of Photography. They will also be hosting the historical exhibition George Chance: Improving on Nature and Perpetual Verdure: Landscape Photographs from The University of Auckland Art Collection. Also photographers Margaret Dawson, Anne Shelton and others will speak about their practice. See below for Public Programme details...

Image: Margaret Dawson's talk at Gus Fisher is titled 'A Chance beginning' and will discuss works from the Bryndwr Lakes series (detail; right).
Saturday 27 May @ 2pm Ron Brownson, Senior Curator of New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery andMARGRETA CHANCE, granddaughter of the late George Chance Senior will speak at the opening of

Saturday 3 June @ 2pm Christchurch photographers MARGARET DAWSON and JOHN DEAN will be in the gallery to discuss their contemporary photographic practice

@ 3pm WAYNE BARRAR, Director of Photography at Massey University College of Creative Arts will speak about his photographs in Perpetual Verdure and discuss themes in his landscape photography.

Saturday 10 June @ 2pm ANN SHELTON, lecturer in photography at the Manukau School of Visual Arts will talk about the making of her latest series of photographs A Library to Scale.

Friday 23 June @ 12pm Photographer PETER PERYER will talk about his practice

Saturday 24 June @ 12pm Panel discussion on

COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY with:

Dr PETER SIMPSON, Associate-Professor of English, The University of Auckland

Dr PAUL McNAMARA, Director of McNamara Gallery, Wanganui

Dr SANDY CALLISTER, Research Associate, History Department, The University of Auckland

RON BROWNSON, Senior Curator of New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery

Parsons' Bookshop will have photography books on sale in the foyer of the Gus Fisher Gallery.

Saturday 1 July @ 2pm LINDA TYLER, Director of the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery, The University of Auckland, will speak about George Chance and his photography.