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Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau
Women and Photography Māreikura Whakaahua
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“Researching, collecting and writing about photography, I have often wondered where the women were.”—Lissa Mitchell
Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau showcases the diverse range of photography by women and non-binary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, spanning the 1960s to today. This major survey exhibition from Te Papa’s collections sparks a conversation between past and present – exploring themes of identity, whānau, place, and time through a feminist lens. Highlighting over 150 works by 50 artists, this accompanying catalogue by curator Lissa Mitchell illustrates how ways of seeing can be passed down, reimagined, and slowly reignited.
Featured artists include Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Natalie Robertson and Lisa Reihana. The curator’s essay provides further historical context to the exhibition, and biographies of the photographers make this a valuable research resource.
Slow Burn builds on ten years of deeply considered research, inclusive collection decisions, and the 2023 publication of Lissa’s acclaimed book Through Shaded Glass: Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960. The exhibition and catalogue bring work by photographers from the last 65 years out of the storeroom and into conversation with each other – a celebration of photography’s ever-evolving nature in Aotearoa.
Lissa Mitchell is curator of historical photography at Te Papa and has held previous roles in photographic collection management and preventive photographic conservation roles at the New Zealand Film Archive (now part of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. She has a degree in art history from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to a career in photographic history, Mitchell was an experimental filmmaker.
- ISBN-13
- 9781991072191
- Publisher
- Te Papa Press
- Imprint
- Te Papa Press
- Publication date
- 12 February 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 232
- Dimensions
- 250 x 190 mm
- Language
- English
