Still Light - The Photography of Marti Friedlander
15 December, 2015 - 14 February, 2016
Photography Gallery
Marti Friedlander, Self-portrait (1961)
Diana Arbus wrote ‘I can only understand the world if I photograph it’, and this certainly seems to have held true for the renowned photographer Marti Friedlander. London born, Friedlander arrived in New Zealand in 1958 when she began what is a lifelong project – capturing the faces, places and events that have shaped this country’s recent history.
Throughout her inspiring career Marti Friedlander’s photographs have offered great insight into the way New Zealand has established a more complex and compelling identity over multiple generations. She has been instrumental in independently documenting the changing nature of contemporary post war New Zealand through the protest and woman’s movements – the ever-changing roles of men and women and that of Maori and Pacific Societies.
Still Light: The Photography of Marti Friedlander is a selection of images that hold a very strong mirror as to who we are and how we have come to be.