In most situations I prefer SLR control of depth of field and exposure. It’s manual everything, but simple and intuitive, and faithfully reliable. I only have a few cameras, and I use my Nikon FM almost exclusively for film photography. Also on display at the exhibition, and of particular interest for photographers, are Rachel Mounsey’s evocative images of the Black Summer fires in 2019. These images feature the hanging spheres from artist Tomás Saraceno, Dora Budor’s volcano-littered scenes inside brightly lit glass cases, Yhonnie Scarce’s Cloud Chamber, Ron Mueck’s remarkable “In bed” sculpture, and Carlos Amorales’ thousands of butterflies and moths, cut from black paper and fixed to the gallery walls. The gallery environment provided plenty of interesting shapes, light and dark environments, colour, contrast, reflections, and the artwork itself.

2015 Tony exhibited his Another World, Portraits from Ohura at the Pingyao International Photography festival, Shanxi province, China.To add another dimension to my visit to the ‘Air’ exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, I decided to take my camera along. ‘Another World, Portraits from Ohura’, photographed in was first shown at Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, in 2014, and at the Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford in 2015. His first solo exhibition, of award winning portraits, was shown at Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, in 2004. In 2010 he was also named the first Grand Master of Professional Photography by the NZ Institute of Professional Photographers. He has won numerous industry awards and has Six times been named New Zealand Professional Photographer of the year (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 20. He trained as professional portrait photographer with Margaret Bake in New Plymouth from 1991-1995, where he now has his own studio. As a teenager Tony developed a keen interest in photographing Motocross racing, While living in England during 1989-1991 on a overseas experience, he took an extended night course in Photography at South Devon College, Devon, UK. Tony Carter, was born in Inglewood ,Taranaki, New Zealand in 1967 and grew in small towns right around Mt Taranaki, He was educated at Stratford High and Taranaki Polytech in New Plymouth, studying to become a Professional Photographer.

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