A lovely conversation with Sara Orme about her journey in photography and her forthcoming publication, Kaumāua. From her website:

Sara Tautuku Orme (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tarawhai, Ngāti Whakaue – Te Arawa) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based photographer and social documentarian with a background in sociology and kaupapa Māori storytelling. Her work explores whakapapa, Māori identity, mana motuhake, and the enduring impacts of colonisation, often through intimate portraiture and oral histories.

Sara has been exploring whanaungatanga through her lens for over two decades. Her work has been exhibited in Aotearoa, Australia, and New York, and is held in public collections such as Waikato Museum.

Her most recent kaupapa, Kaumātua, records and preserves the kōrero whaiaro and mātauranga of Māori elders across Aotearoa. Rooted in tikanga and story sovereignty, the work combines large-format photographic portraiture with Māori oral histories.

She has exhibited at Te Papa, Caelum Gallery (New York), and Blindside (Melbourne), and in 2025 contributed to He Waka Eke Noa at Tim Melville Gallery. She has twice been recognised by the Contemporary New Zealand Art Awards (2022, 2023), receiving a national award for her photographic work. Her forthcoming book, Kaumātua Aotearoa, will be published by Auckland University Press in 2026.

Born in Ōtautahi, with whakapapa to Te Teko and Rotorua, Sara has lived in Tāmaki Makaurau for over 30 years, where she raised her tamariki and now her mokopuna. At home she is known as Sara, but on her marae, Ruaihona, in Te Teko, she is Hera — or, as some affectionately say, “the blonde.”

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On this podcast I talk to photographer and designer Neil Pardington. We talk about his early creative experiences, working with his sister, Fiona, on her 2026 Aotearoa / New Zealand Venice Biennale exhibition, influences of other photographers, his current project called Rimurapa (Bull Kelp) and much else.

Website https://neilpardington.com/

Andy Spain 2025

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No annoying intros. Just a chat with a photographer. In this episode I speak to camera-less photographer (if that isn't an oxymoron?) Andrew Beck. We talk about his life as an artist, his background, his MA show at Massey, his move from camera to no camera for his art practice, working as an artist in Aotearoa, image as object, photography as sculpture, not being bothered by AI, coming up with ideas, site specific work, growing as an artist, collaborating, broken car windscreens and much more.

Image: Adrian Vercoe

Links to previous interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlRkIFfsTWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVvVj3fNdQ

https://www.thisishere.nz/here-and-now/photography-backwards?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Gallery Representation:

https://starkwhite.co.nz/artist/andrew-beck/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/andrew_bec/?hl=en

Andy Spain

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