Harvey Benge: The Pah Homestead
24 September, 2013 - 17 November, 2013
Little Gallery
Harvey Benge, The Pah Homestead (2013), archival pigment print
In March 2013 photographer Harvey Benge made a series of seven sumptuous black and white images of the Pah Homestead and its surrounds. Six of the photographs present the Pah Homestead in its beautifully arcadian Monte Cecilia Park setting. The seventh photograph, taken from Cornwall Park, shows the Pah Homestead in the distance, reflecting on the the building's presence within the broader community.
Treated in black and white, the images could have made a century ago or only last week. The works celebrate the Pah Homestead as a place of art, presenting the building and its setting as artworks in their own right.
I'm a Mt Roskill boy and I remember, with a sense of mystery, the Pah Homestead as I cycled about the area delivering prescriptions for a long gone Pharmacy at Three Kings. These pictures are about the past and how it informs the present.
Harvey Benge, 2013
Working between Auckland and Paris, Harvey Benge’s practice focuses on picture series realised through the photo-book. With over thirty titles to date, his work has been published in Britain, France, Germany and New Zealand. His work has also been shown in public and dealer galleries in New Zealand, Britain and throughout Europe including France, Holland, Germany, Poland and Italy. Benge is involved in curatorial projects as well as on-going photography workshops with international photographers at the Auckland University of Technology.
To see more of Harvey’s work, and for more information on his projects, visit www.harveybenge.com
This exhibition is part of the Auckland Heritage Festival 2013