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Photospace presents New Colour by high profile photographer Peter Black this April/May.

Peter Black has been a committed, high profile photographer for over 30 years. Apart from one year’s detour into colour in 1984, he’s worked exclusively in black and white, exploring the medium’s capacity to evoke memory and dream, and moving ever closer to the edge between intention and randomness.

But after his extensive ‘Public’ series (2003–2007, shown at Photospace gallery in 2008), he felt he’d pushed the medium’s capacity for inventiveness as far as it would go; it was time for a completely different challenge, one that would raise his personal bar far higher.

Putting aside his film cameras, he brought a digital camera and began the journey into colour. In a nod to the seminal American New Colour photographers of the 1980s, and reflecting his personal renewal, the exhibition is called ‘New Colour’.

What is the work about?
Moving between the complexity of urban spaces, scenes in country towns and at the beach, the work traverses a range of prospects in New Zealand today.

Originally the work was titled ‘These Days’. There’s acknowledgement of New Zealand of the future in Mount Maunganui and Wellington, as well as the country’s history in pictures like the boxing club mural and a Kiwi milkbar complete with World War monument, both in Alexandra, Central Otago. The long views of the beaches in Papamoa and Mount Maunganui show us absorbed in our individual spaces, surrounded by the expanses of sky and sea that this country offers.

That the work is in colour seems an effortless bonus.

The exhibition consists of 29 A2 photographs printed by the photographer on archival 306 gsm Hahnemuhle Photorag paper using Epsom Ultrachrome K3 pigment inks. A special A4 album on the same media with a larger selection of photographs is also available.

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