"With few exceptions, photographers mostly investigate other worlds, worlds outside their own," says camera artist Harvey Benge. "For the last 15 years or so, this has been the basis of my practice. A dispassionate on-looker. Now, with this series - My House, My Head - I am both the observer and the observed. I have turned the camera on myself, my life, to try and make sense of my world.""With few exceptions, photographers mostly investigate other worlds, worlds outside their own," says camera artist Harvey Benge. "For the last 15 years or so, this has been the basis of my practice. A dispassionate on-looker. Now, with this series - My House, My Head - I am both the observer and the observed. I have turned the camera on myself, my life, to try and make sense of my world."Harvey Benge is renowned for his evocative and mysterious images, taken in cities around the world. Eleven editions of his photo-books have been published so far, and his work has also been shown in public and dealer gallery shows across Europe. He works from both Auckland and Paris.

In his artist's statement, Benge asks: "When am I the observer? When am I the observed? This dichotomy makes the pictures for me emotionally loaded and highly subjective. Is it possible to separate these two opposing positions? Can I be in any way objective? Am I only making pictures I want you to see? I want to see? These questions interrogate the very nature of process, the very nature of me."

He describes My House, My Head as being about change, impermanence, attachment, balance, family and my work. About location and distance and time passing. About memory, desire, love, passion, food and sex.

"Short on formalism, my pictures have always asked the viewer to bring something of themselves to the work to aid its reading. What can you bring from your life to help you read mine? What can you take from my life to help you better understand your own? Is my life so unusual? Only you can decide."

When: 5-16 June 2007
Where: Satellite Gallery
Corner of St Benedicts Street and Newton Road (Entrance St Benedict's St), Newton, Auckland
Entry is free to all.

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2007.