Start Date
16 May -  
End Date
22 May 2016
Artist
Mary Hutchinson
Main Image
Photograhe by Mary Hutchinson from People of Cuba series, Cuba Street Wellington New Zealand
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 9am - 5.30pm
Sunday: 9am - 1pm
Description

I am an amateur photographer with a love of black and white street photography and portraiture. Wellington’s urban environments are rich with opportunities to observe and capture life in the city. With the images in this Cuba People series I aim to celebrate the everyday, the surprising, the humorous, the beautiful, and the sad aspects of people out and about in this unique street in central Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand.

As noted on a Cuba Mall display board:

“Everything you ever wanted........and more

acupuncture, antiques, art, automobiles, beauty, books, chainsaws, Chinese medicine.... skates, tattoos, technology, travel, vinyl...........plus much much more

and the most fascinating mix of people in the country”

Cuba People is my third street photography book; the others are Three Cities (2015), and Newtown Forever (2016).

Mary Hutchinson

May 2016

 

 

“...They have a story to be told. I want to tell it, I want to be a voice for the unfamous people. They are the people who interest me. Whether it’s a guy in Miami who goes to a dance or its someone who’s dying in Ethiopia, they are the unfamous people that I care about. I feel a certain purity in them that’s real, and I want to document their lives...”

Mary Ellen Mark in The Photo Essay (Photographers at work, a Smithsonian Series, 1990).