Port Chalmers solargraphs

This set of solargraphs are all from around Port Chalmers.

The exposure times are about a 2 -4 weeks.

Looking north down the main street towards the container terminal.

The repair wharf at Careys bay.

Brailey's Track, Careys bay, the cemetery in mid distance. This camera fell off the tree it was attached to at some stage and was resting on the ground looking straight up at it. That's the tree in the left of image as a double exposure.

Careys bay boatsheds from a viewpoint close to water level.

Ralph Hotere's Black Phoenix II, the upended counter stern of an old fishing boat, seen in the Hotere sculpture park.

Altered Scapes.

This exhibition is currently showing at the Allez! Gallery, 34 George St, Port Chalmers. Open 11.00 to 4.00 weekends. Until 10 August.

These large inkjet prints of landscapes around Dunedin have been distorted to provide a surprising look at familiar locations.

From the press release:

Chris Reid photographs the landscape as he experiences it. Distorted proportions exaggerate the viewers' emotional response. His romanticists' lens displays the local environment as a towering, Tolkienesque world of fjord like waters and barely dormant volcanoes. The city is seen as a gothic toytown, as disturbingly familiar as it is strangely beautiful.

This work by Chris Reid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License.