RANGE an In-Venue arts exhibition with the Auckland Festival of Photography

RANGE is an independent project that shares 11 artists' interests in photographic processes, both digital and analogue, with a focus on alternative techniques such as lumen and cyanotype. The group’s diverse experiments with unpredictable chemical processes and expired materials track the movement of humans and plants across oceans and borders; their exposures capture the motion of limbs, water, sediment, wind and rock. 

RANGE participating artists are,

Anne Marie Basquin / Louise Corry / Abbie Cossey / Madeline Jones / Christina Little / Cassey Locke / David Loughlin / Aimee Magne / Charlotte Parallel / Shelley Simpson / The exhibition also includes work by Kate van der Drift, founder and facilitator of Art Photo School.

The artists in RANGE seek a deeper engagement with place and material, realised, over time, by working in collaboration with place and material, by slowing down and listening, by favouring process over production. 

The eleven participating artists first met online at Art Photo School in 2025, a project initiated by artist Kate van der Drift. Kate says "I started Art Photo School to create a space to support sustained, process-driven photographic art practices. The first cohort brought together this wonderful group of engaged artists. We met weekly and talked through ideas, material processes, contemporary and research practices, and our shared experiences. The idea was to create momentum and accountability by showing up and sharing our progress regularly. It’s incredible to see these connections extending into this exhibition."

The Auckland Festival of Photography movement [kori] provided an ideal opportunity for the cohort to continue working together and to present their work within an expanded photographic context. Post opening night RANGE invites the public to join the artists’ panel discussion on Saturday 30th at 11am for a chance to delve into the processes and conceptual layering of the artworks. 

Participating artist David Laughlin describes his works as “not photographs in the usual sense. They are impressions. Evidence. Small chemical weather systems. A collaboration between earth, feather, and an obsolete surface that still remembers how to receive.”

Some of the artists will be onsite during the exhibition and look forward to chatting with you! 

Nau mai, haere mai, tautī mai.

Image credit: Risosphere-Chicory by Shelley Simpson