Name: Curators' Talk: A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa
Start: 2025-09-20T01:00:00+12:00
Location: Hocken Collections

Curators' Talk: A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa

Curators’ Floor Talk, 20 September 2025, 11am-12noon, Hocken Gallery
Curators, Shaun Higgins (Auckland Museum), Natalie Marshall (Alexander Turnbull Library) and Anna Petersen (Hocken Collections), conduct a guided tour of the newly opened exhibition, A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa.
Free to attend. Limited to 25 people. Please email [email protected] to book.
'A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa', is a collaborative exhibition featuring precious photographs from Auckland Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library and Hocken Collections.
Exhibition open Saturday 20 September 2025 – Saturday 7 February 2026 at the Hocken Gallery, first floor, Hocken Library, 90 Anzac Avenue, Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm (closed Sunday, Monday and public holidays).
Image: William Meluish, Octagon, decorated in honour of the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, July 1863, Box-167-007, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago.