Auckland Photographic Society (APS) is a Club focused on encouraging amateur photographers to learn, experience and enjoy photography. APS found that as members became more technically and artistically experienced they were gradually lost to the Club as our standard format no longer met their photographic and creative needs. The APS Magnum Group concept was created as a way to provide these photographers with a forum within the Club to help continue their own artistic development and yet still be available as a mentoring resource for other members.
APS Magnum Group members have progressed through the Club grades and are now looking to innovatively explore the medium of photography and extend their own creative boundaries outside the constraints of competitive Club nights. The Group is intended to be a focus, a social and support group for participating members who have moved away from producing single images for judging to producing bodies of work where many images are viewed in the context set by the photographer.
Established in early 2010, the Group has nine members. The APS Magnum Group is hosting three Club nights in 2010 to present different perspectives to Club members and to show work produced by members during their limited tenure in the group.
Each member is profiled below, in their own words.
Andie Pryce is obsessed by photography and making images.. From a first love of landscape and Black and White photography, she has morphed into a colour impressionist and abstract photographer. Andie has exhibited in group exhibitions at Artstation, Letham and PPG Galleries and is working towards a solo exhibition of impressionist images. Andie believes that the photographic journey is much richer when photographers have a forum to share their new work, their thoughts and their experiences. The APS Magnum Group acts both as a security blanket to help with artistic insecurities and as a gentle prod to help the Group Members keep momentum on their individual journeys.
View Andie’s work at: www.andiepryce.com
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Chris Morton has a passion for photography - its inspirational quality and the power to convey emotion and a sense of people and place. He has been a photographer for six years and has won awards both in New Zealand and internationally. Chris enjoys a wide range of image making with his special focus on landscape, alpine, documentary and abstract images. Chris has exhibited portraits taken in India at Bath St Gallery, Auckland.
Chris is currently involved in the Our Place World Heritage Project and also on several book projects.
To see more of Chris’ work go to: www.chrismortonphotography.co.nz and ourplaceworldheritage
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Lisa Crandall is a professional portrait photographer with a studio – ImageMe - in Takapuna. As well as belonging to the APS Magnum Group, Lisa is a qualified member of the NZIPP. In 2008 she was named "People Photographer of the Year" at Iris, NZ's Professional Photography Awards. Lisa is passionate about people photography, education, and teaching workshops for photographers. She finds the APS Magnum Group a great supportive network and appreciates the opportunity to bounce ideas around with like-minded photographers. Lisa’s current goal is to find more time to work on personal fine art photography projects.
View Lisa’s work at: www.imageme.co.nz
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Lynn Clayton first picked up a Box Brownie 50 plus years ago and her passion for the photographic art form has steadily grown. Lynn has a strong involvement with PSNZ having been their President and served on council for around six years.
Lynn says she loves street/people photography and flowers but dabbles in most genres of photography. Her strong belief is that photography comes from the heart....not the camera. Digital has enabled her to create some exciting monochrome work previously not available to her. Lynn has won several awards over the years including the Brian Brake Award, the Pro Gear Trophy and the Royal Easter Show Gold Medal. She has had many exhibitions and her work is in private collections in New Zealand and internationally. Despite all this Lynn says there is plenty yet to learn especially when it comes to technology! Working in a vacuum is stifling and groups such as APS Magnum and Camera Clubs add a really worthwhile dimension to her photographic life.
To see more of Lynn’s photographic journey go to: www.lynnclaytonphotography.com or
www.flickr.com/photos/wwwlynnclaytonphotographycom/
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Chris Piper has had a love affair with photography since he was nine years old. Sounds precocious but it is amazing what he achieved with his Box Brownie. His parents gave him his first SLR, a Canon EXee as an adolescent to support his passion. Without any defining moment he has gradually developed his interest through camera clubs, trips and courses with fellow photographers. Photography has become an expression of his fascination with nature and its sheer beauty as well as a way of making sense of the world, especially when nothing appears to make any sense. As a veterinarian it was appropriate he became fascinated with birds, especially our native ones. Encouragement from Geoff Moon helped this special interest and his guidance led to Chris achieving his LPSNZ about five years ago. One day he hopes to beat his phobia of computers and become competent in Lightroom. Chris looks forward to this moment and overcoming the many other challenges of technology with the generous support of APS Magnum members.
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Robert Jaques took up photography as a hobby in the late 1980s. Unlike many photographers who progress from Black and White to colour, Robert has worked exclusively with colour slide film, (more recently digital), and occasionally uses a 4x5" large format camera for his landscape images. His photographic interests are diverse and include landscape, nature, macro, abstract and architecture. Robert appreciates the qualities of a finely crafted print and admires the work of large format Landscape photographers such as Christoper Burkett, Jack Dykinga and David Ward. The APS Magnum Group enables him to show his work and get feedback in a non competitive environment. His view is that photography shouldn't be treated like a sport; instead photography should be about following one's own personal vision, and staying true to that.
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John McCallum has a particular passion for photography in two main genres - the natural landscape and the city environment and he explores both through his own interpretation. After some years of photographing, John seeks to make images without too many embellishments or exaggerations. Emphasis is rather on creating an interest from image content and balance of form. John has solo exhibited successfully and has won national awards for his landscape photography including the Royal Easter Shows’ best Black and White and best Overall Print categories.
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Charles Lynch takes photos from time to time and some of them seem to turn out ok (in his opinion). He has young children who take up most of his time and often end up as the subject of his photos. Charles hopes the APS Magnum group can help him decide which direction his photography should go in next.
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Dharmendra Krisson - Like most amateur photographers my interest in photography started as a hobby and became an obsession about six years ago. I have used almost every format from 35mm to medium to large format, and from film to digital mainly in pursuit of the ultimate quality. Now I shoot digital 35mm which suits my photography style and is of acceptable quality.
Those who know me will agree that my photography has evolved over the past 5 years. Like everyone else I started shooting everything and anything to now just shooting Black and White Landscapes. I stopped taking photographs about two years ago and started making images. It is important to me to give a sense of what I felt and show when the image was taken, rather than replicate what was there at that time. The images that I make and print now are simple with very few elements, that work cohesively to create an emotion or communicate to the viewer about a place at that moment in time or at least I hope they do.
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