RESOLUTIONS
-photographing stories through detail
Christchurch Women's Photography Collective
Resolutions photography exhibition explores themes such as colour, mood, culture, nostalgia, and beauty from the perspectives of six photographers. These complex notions are brought into focus, are resolved, with a quiet determination through the lens. The techniques and motivation of the photographers are individual, however they are connected through storytelling and the shared experiences of photography.
Some of the group have created work especially for the exhibition, while others are showing work curated over the ‘Covid Years’. Resolutions opens from 6pm Friday, 25 February and runs until Thursday, 24 March, all welcome to attend the opening.
Kim Dixon
Kim is a photographer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Working full time in the health sector, Kim enjoys photography as a creative escape. 'MAGNOLIA DREAM' is a series with two distinct moods showcasing the feelings nature can evoke and a reminder of the beauty around us.
Belinda Lansley
Belinda loves camping and exploring and her current series is from a camping trip to Wharariki Beach - a windswept wild landscape where tourists visit, take Instagram photos then leave. Belinda is a mum of three. She is a professional portrait photographer as well as having two other day jobs. She is inspired by nature, people and both the unusual and mundane.
Janneth Gil
Janneth Gil is a Colombian-born New Zealander photographer and Engineer who recently finished a Master of Fine Arts, majoring in photography, at the University of Canterbury. Gil uses a broad range of artistic processes as a tool for social change and wellbeing, including photography, collaborative practices, and community engagement. Gil's aim is to encourage the community towards considering dialogue, tolerance, and inclusivity in the face of adversity and hardship.
With Colours of Colombia, Gil wants to highlight the importance of keeping our cultural roots alive and to give the opportunity to the viewer to learn about the positive aspects of her birth country, Colombia, with the hope of reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with it.
These photographs depict the interior of the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia. The cathedral is an underground Roman Catholic Church built within the left over tunnels of a salt mine in the land of the Muiscas, a pre-Colombian society that mined the area for salt since around the 5th century BC.
Heather Milne
Heather Milne is a digital photographer based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Heather draws on her observations and experiences of trauma, recovery, and transformation to create photographs that document social and environmental change, and shared community experiences. Over the past four years, her work has included themes such as gender, art accessibility, urban decay, and public grief.
For Resolutions, Heather is exhibiting images of the Selwyn District which were taken during bush fires and Covid announcements, but retain their beauty despite the surrounding distractions.
Jemma Mitchell
Jemma Mitchell is a Photographer & creative from South New Brighton, Christchurch specialising in Documentary Photography and Portraiture. Her pieces are collection of work documenting snippets of her family’s life through photographs.
Jennifer Shields
Jennifer Katherine Shields is a film photographer based in Christchurch. She describes her approach as 'candid landscapes', taking a camera with her wherever she goes to create nostalgic snapshots of the world around us. In these works, she's used a blended analogue and digital process to create prints from yesteryear, with surreal and hyper-real colours.