You’ve been waiting patiently for a whole, long year, but June’s rolling around and it’s finally time again for the Auckland Festival of Photography!

Running from June 4 through til June 27, there’s more photography on show than you’re liable to fit into a month.

This year’s festival features a ‘Signature Series,’ a collection of high-profile photographic events. The Signature Series includes the Climate Change and Environmental Symposium at the Aotea Centre on June 5, which explores photography’s representation of climate change with thoughts from photojournalist Jocelyn Carlin, Australia’s Rodney Dekker, Peter Evans and Professor Anne Noble. There’ll also be a projection of Magnum Photo’s ‘One Planet, One Chance,’ which explores environmental change with stills, sound and statistics.

Anne Noble will also speak at the Auckland Art Lounge on June 6, discussing her recent work photographing on her recent visits to Antarctica. The Auckland Art Lounge will also be graced by presentations from the founder of Gow Langsford Gallery, John Gow, on June 13, and Photography Curator at Te Papa, Athol McCredie, on June 20.

Signature exhibitions include Gil Hanley’s One of My Worlds at Whitespace Gallery on Crummer Road, a survey of Gil’s work from over 30 years.

Fiona Pardington’s Ahua – A Beautiful Hesitation goes on show at Two Rooms in Newton, which details large-scale portraits of life-casts taken of Maori and Pacific peoples during Dumont d’Urville’s voyage to the Pacific in 1837.

An exhibition of Ava Seymour’s photographs developed during a residency in Colin McCahon’s studio goes on show at Lopdell House in Titirangi, and incredible pinhole photographer Darren Glass has a new collection about his (still ongoing) fishing expeditions in Northland, Every Fish I Ever Caught.

A collection of Japanese photography 1970’s to the present as curtated by Rei  Masuda, the curator of photography at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Gazing at the Contemporary World, displays 70 images from 23 photographers at Unitec in Mt Albert.

The Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards will make their last top at the Vero Centre on Shortland Street, displaying 150 of the finest works from professional New Zealand Photographers.

New Zealand photographers long gone will also be investigated at the John Leech gallery, with a collection of 19^th Century Photographers explored in Old Masters.

Along with the Signature Series, there are also over 40 shows and events taking place across the city in the Fringe Festival, which while too numerous to list in this small space are definitely deserving of being checked out.

Festival favourites are all still on, including Auckland Photo Day on June 12, where participants are given 24 hours to take their best picture of Auckland to be in with a chance of winning an Olympus E620 dSLR.  Gravity Coffee will also be repeating its incredibly popular ‘Festival Tuesday,’ ferrying photophiles all over the city in their fleet of Minis to check out nine shows.

“What is so special about this festival is its acknowledgement of photography’s greatest strength, the fact that photography is the most democratic of all forms of visual expression,” said Festival Patron Harvey Benge. “We all have a view of the world, be it a ‘baby picture’ or high art, the Auckland Festival of Photography celebrates that like no other I have seen.”

Check out www.photographyfestival.org.nz for more details. We’ll see you there!

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