29 May to 20 June
In conjunction with the 2026 Auckland Photography Festival OREXART are showing the extraordinary pinhole photographs of Viky Garden.
In 2018, Garden entered two photographic images into the international Julia Margaret Cameron 12th annual Photographic Award in Barcelona, Spain. Out of over 6,000 entries from all over the world, both images won the Alternative Processes Award. Since then her work has received a series of accolades, including another two winner awards, five finalist places and an honourable mention. This will be Garden’s first solo exhibition in Auckland of pinhole photographs.
I love the mysterious revealing or developing aspect and it’s this that feels lacking in the digital picture-taking process. Pinhole photography is very much hands-on and really does create a kind of spirit. For me, it’s photography where only a pinhole lets light in and onto a paper negative, where the exposure time is guesswork and frankly, anything can and does actually happen. It’s about inviting chance into a process and respecting that very little will ever go to plan. The resulting images have a recognisable idiosyncratic aesthetic. They are an analogue image as opposed to something digital. They are time and light crafted.
Viky Garden
Viky Garden Wings photograph 770 x 670mm. Editions 5
Awards for pinhole photographs:
2020 Honourable Mention, Monochrome Photography Awards
2020 Winner, 15th Pollux Photography Award, Alternative Process Category, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Finalist, 15th Pollux Photography Award, Alternative Process Category, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Finalist, 15th Pollux Photography Award, Fine Art Category, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Finalist Fine Art Category, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Winner, 13th Pollux Photography Award, Self Portrait Category, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Finalist, 13th Pollux Photography Award, Fine Art Category, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Finalist, 13th Pollux Photography Award, Alternative Process Category, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Winner, Alternative Process, 12th Julia Margaret Photography Award, Barcelona, Spain
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