My first camera was gifted to me by Gran when I was 8. A small point and shoot, made entirely of plastic, adorned with loony tunes characters and the brightly coloured lettering "That's All Folks!". It shot 35mm film, with no need to focus, or do anything other than wind on, and I used it as often as I could get films to put through it. Most people my age didn't have their own cameras, and even as I got older, the potential embarrassment of having one in public which drew so much attention wasn't enough to stop me from using it. That unique combination of stress, anticipation and magic when the photos finally came back from the local chemist.
Later gaining access to the darkroom, I was awed by the experience of watching my photographs slowly seep out from the darkness. My passion for the rich world of photochemical image making became fully alive, and seeded the beginning of a question looking at how we can hold on to some of that magic in our art as we move forward with photographic technologies.
I'm fueled by a fundamental interest in how technology and image making can be best used to tell a story, spending my time understanding the science of how new things work, but also learning and testing how they effect us as people.
Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School
Completed in 2013
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Working with Film for Change for Community Research
Producing two short videos
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
New Zealand Film and Television School
Long Cloud Film - Film - 2014
Directed by Stella Reid
The Linesman - Short Film - 2013
Creative Team - Emma Nichols, Harriet Denby, Robert Edwards, Matt Fannin
The Warmth of You - Short Film - 2013
Directed by Isobel Mebus
Long Cloud Film - Film - 2014 (In Progress)
Directed by Stella Reid
The Linesman - Short Film - 2013
Creative Team - Emma Nichols, Harriet Denby, Robert Edwards, Matt Fannin
One Percent Collective: Superhero - Web Ad - 2014
Director of Photography - Marty Williams
Directed by Mark Albiston
Sinking Ship - Short Film - 2014
Director of Photography - Andreas Mahn
Directed by Carolyn Dekkers
The Dare - Short Film - 2013
Typhoid Films
Directed by Matthew Barnes
The Performance Arcade - 2013
The Playground NZ
Promo Film for 'The Passage' - 2014
Site Responsive Installation by Cathryn Monro
The Mercy Clause - Centrepoint Theatre 2014
Directed by Jeff Kingsford-Brown
Shopping - Film - 2012
Directed by Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston