A BIT OF A DO
June 18 - 27
Avondale Bowling Club, 15 Highbury St, Auckland - 10 am daily

Creative Exposure has asked photographers since 2004 to submit some of these 'A Bit Of A Do' images and chosen to display them in community venues to build new audiences for photography by making the work more accessible. Specially selected images showing social and cultural events that bind communities together. private celebrations such as family parties or weddings or public events are shown.A BIT OF A DO
June 18 - 27
Avondale Bowling Club, 15 Highbury St, Auckland - 10 am daily

Creative Exposure has asked photographers since 2004 to submit some of these 'A Bit Of A Do' images and chosen to display them in community venues to build new audiences for photography by making the work more accessible. Specially selected images showing social and cultural events that bind communities together. private celebrations such as family parties or weddings or public events are shown.This year's images will include:- tattooing, hay making, weddings, Indian family traditions, childrens birthdays and public events with politicians at Lantern Festival, musicians at Pasifika Festival, kids at the Weetbix Kids Tryathlon and Diwali Festival dance performances.

This year's exhibition will be displayed at the Avondale Bowling Club, the training ground for some leading young NZ bowlers and in the heartland of this established working-class suburb. The patron of this club is the Rt Hon Helen Clark.

The Auckland Festivalof Photography runs 4 - 26 June 2005 at various venues and galleries all over the city

Image supplied - Scott Diamond - Ta Moko

Scott Diamond took this photograph for a friend, as part of a series documenting this English-born woman receiving a moko, which she has decided to wear because of her love of Maori art and culture. The tattoo artist, Inia Taylor of Ta Moko in Grey Lynn is relaying a story with great animation as the English woman and an Italian man listen carefully. For the photographer, the photo represents the love affair new immigrants and casual travellers have with our art, culture and history. The story telling theme of the figures in the foreground is echoed in the display of the collection of artefacts on the wall behind, and the space between the background and foreground has been flattened by the black and white photography. Like the found collections of objects in Jean-Marc Tingaud's Interieurs (1991), these cherished items on the wall elicit stories and meanings in themselves.