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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Urban

URBAN brings together outdoor, urban and street photographs shaped by observation, public space and the everyday edges of the built environment.

  • Black-and-white urban photograph of a dense clipped hedge beside a pavement, with a rounded topiary-like mass, a metal mailbox marked 88B, bare pruned trees, utility poles and wires, and part of a house visible above.
    Manicured
  • Vertical colour photograph of pale blue and pink wooden railings forming a layered geometric grid. A dark post divides modern houses and a silhouetted tree in the background, under cool blue dusk light.
    Bauhaus Blues
  • Dark early-morning photograph of a marina with yachts, masts and reflections lining a still channel. Auckland Harbour Bridge is silhouetted against an amber horizon, with wisps of glowing peach-coloured cloud crossing the deep blue sky.
    Growing Light

  • Darkened colour photograph showing the Auckland skyline and Sky Tower in silhouette across calm harbour water, with a heavy dark cloud mass above and low dawn colour reflected below.
    Dark City

  • Muted colour photograph of an empty wooden jetty extending into still water through dense fog. Dark mooring posts and reflections line the right side, while a pale ladder, low bench and faint distant light emerge through blue-grey mist.
    Jetty in Fog
  • Close colour photograph of small round green leaves and reddish stems growing in a dark gap between two green-painted wooden surfaces. Sunlight highlights parts of the foliage, while cracked paint, wood grain and tiny pale flowers remain visible.
    Green Light

Galleries

Black-and-white photograph of a chain-link gate with a “PRIVATE PROPERTY KEEP OUT” sign, dense foliage, wooden posts, a chain and a weathered tree trunk leaning diagonally across the entrance.

Urbis

Black-and-white overhead photograph of a flattened drink can lying diagonally on rough soil and stones, with large fragmented “LIVE” lettering, deep creases, dirt stains and grass pressing around its torn upper edge.

Crush

Black and white overhead photo of a dead bird on pavement, surrounded by fallen white blossom and twigs, with a curved twig resembling a crescent moon nearby.

Remains

Darkened colour photograph showing a marina channel, dense yacht masts and moored boats beneath heavy blue-black cloud, with the Auckland Harbour Bridge at left and a narrow band of dawn light on the horizon.

Dark Harbour