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Robin Hammond – an eye for injustice

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Wilton boy, Robin Hammond’s commitment to human rights photography has lead him to win many coveted awards for his work.

In this interview we talk to Robin about how he ended up in African prisons to show us what is happening when the support system for people with mental disability fails post war. He also talks about his photo shoot ” the Dark side of Denim” which showed the environmental effects that denim production had on a small African village. And what he saw in Tuvalu as the people on this beautiful island start to drown under the effects of climate change.

Robin was here to be inducted into the Massey Creative Hall of Fame, as well as to accompany the World Press exhibition featuring his award winning photographs from the “Condemned” series and to see his Mum and Dad.

The World Press exhibition is on at the NZ Portrait Gallery, Shed 11 until September 21st.

http://www.http://worldpressphoto.org.nz/wellington/

http://www.robinhammond.co.uk/category/features/

Phillipa O’Brien – the gifted girl from Kingston

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Phillipa O’Brien, is a very busy lady right now with two photographic exhibitions about to go up in town. One kicks off this Friday the 27th of June at  where Phillipa has developed her own intriguing style of pictorial-scripts called Photofables.

The other is a major lifetime experience, photographing the scene of Danny Lemon’s 8500 collectors item records burnt in the storage fire in Wellington earlier this year. In this interview Phillipa talks about how she saw art in this devastation and made an exhibition of it, which is on now on at .

Phillipa also reveals some interesting stories about Danny Lemon in the South Island high Country,  the positive thing she saw in the community through Danny’s sad loss and the simple reason why she wanted to help him out.

For more information on Danny Lemon’s story you can go here ( and please buy a poster). http://dannylemon.com/

And for more of Phillipa O’ Briens work http://www.philippaobrien.com/
 and the exhibition : http://www.photospacegallery.com/2014—philippa-obrien.html