Jo Galvin

Written by Emma Whitlock

Meet curator and photographer Jo Galvin who recently returned to NZ having done (creative) time in the UK.  Jo shares with MORPH her series Adore and Endure which was produced over the last three years both in Auckland and London.

Using a 1960s medium format Hasselblad, the images are a willing and intimate exchange between subject and photographer.  Jo Galvin’s practice involves an ongoing documentation of her extended social circle using her growing collection of analog cameras.  Adore and Endure looks at the relationship between camera and photographer, photographer and subject, and the photographic print as an object, including the context in which it is shown.  In this instance the audience is presented with digitized test prints in an online format.  The resulting images are those that have made it through the rigorous editing process but are not yet ready to print - such is the process of a practice which involves a rapid decline in available resources.

Jo Galvin is also a curator and the director of In House Creative Projects, currently operating out of Number 4 Gallery on Cross Street, Auckland.  www.joannagalvin.com