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In the beginning the Centre received its funding from an enterprise called 'Focus on New Zealand' and an establishment grant from the Lotteries Board. It now relies on Commercial Sponsors and a nationwide membership. During its short history it has attracted commissions from the Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs.
As a registered charitable trust it is administered by a board of trustees drawn from a wide cross-section of the community. It is staffed by a director and volunteers.
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David Langman
Box 5365, Lambton Quay
Wellington
New Zealand
Our office is situated on the first floor, New Zealand Portrait Gallery. The entrance is Bowen House, cnr Lambton Quay, Bowen Street, Wellington.
Open 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.
For further information:
Ph/Fax: 04 915 1507
Mob: 021 718 941
centrephot@clear.net.nz
It is open to everyone.
$45 per year (including 4 issues of NZ Journal of Photography)
You can enjoy some exclusive benefits while knowing that you help support a charitable trust devoted to something you hold dear.
The NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY is published quarterly by the New Zealand Centre for Photography. $25 for subscription. Editor Bill Main.
The New Zealand Centre for Photography(NZCP) was established in 1985. It undertakes touring photographic exhibitions, bringing speakers to New Zealand, arranging workshops and publishing a quarterly called the NZ JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY (NZJP).
We exist to promote New Zealand photography and support the independent photographer - amateur, professional, student, educator. And we aim to extend photograph's audience. Exhibitions, lectures, workshops and publishing are all part of our programme.
The centre has a reference library of books and magazines from New Zealand and around the world. It offers videos and tape/slide sets which cover much of photography's national and international history. Then it has a print collection - images preserved for their value as 'photographs' as different from other institutions which choose pictures primarily for the information they contain. The centre also houses a camera collection. An unparalleled voyage into photography's technological past. The world's first snapshot camera was made in 1888. You can see one at the NZCP . And alongside could be a Leica - the camera used by photojournalists since the 1930s to capture a swiftly changing world. Or you might be more intrigued by a sonar auto focus Polaroid, a contemporary tool to seize that elusive image. With its collection of photographic literature and archive of original prints, the Centre stands as New Zealand's only museum of photography.
To promote New Zealand Photography.
Funding for the Centre's activities come from individual and corporate sponsorship and self-generated income. If you are a friend of photography and you are searching for something more from photography, become a member.
