Digital Technology 2: Week 5: Conor Clark

Digital Technology 2

Week 5

Conor Clark

This week we traveled to meet Conor Clark at a kinda private residency in Waitawa Regional park that she is currently staying at. Conor is the 11th photographer to be chosen to take images of an island there that is slowly being drilled away for some kinda of deposit. Chair of the Auckland's Councils Arts says, her selection for the project was based on her talent and well researched application. Conor is an exceptional Auckland artist who has made a name for herself internationally, he says, Her work is sublime yet ominous, disturbing yet beautiful. We are delighted to attract her back to NZ and the inspiration of Waitawa. We are delighted to welcome the born and bred Aucklander back to her roots.  

I really enjoyed hearing Conor talk about her photography and thought a lot of what she said was very informative and I loved finding out that she is also from South Auckland like me and that she had been considering entering the same photography competition in Pukekohe that I had entered one of my photographs in, in the middle of the year which I thought was quite cool. 

While at Conor's we went for a long walk to the top of a hill to see more clearly the Island that Conor was taking images of, I thought I was going to die walking up that hill but it was completely worth it the view from the top was AMAZING!!.

These are some of the Images I took while up there :)

I atm can't see the images that Conor has taken of the Island BUT I'm guessing hers would have been taken from a lot closer I remember her saying that she was planning on hiring a boat and going around the island in it to take closer images which I obviously couldn't do BUT I'm still very happy with these images, I think the scenery is stunning. Conor may also sail to the island it's self and get images on it maybe a bit like the bottom image I put of Conors on this blog which I obviously couldn't do either cause we didn't have the facilities to do that. BUT I'm just happy I made it up the hill to get these images lol. I quite like these images though cause I feel they're really scenic and you can fully see whats around the island as well not just the island.

Information about Conor Clark

Conor is a 33yr old New Zealand born Berlin based Landscape and Architectural photographer who specialises in observational photography. 

Conor has exhibited at 2 Rooms Gallery in Auckland and Photospace in Wellington.

Conor has been shortlisted for Best Series in the upcoming 2015 Renaissance Photography Prize in London and recently received an IdeasTap Award at the Dusseldorf Portfolio Review at the NRW-Forum as part of Dusseldorf Photo Weekend 2015.