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28 October 2004

PRESS RELEASE

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION DOCUMENTING A PLACE IN TIME

My Place: A Place in Time
Exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery: 4 November 2004 – 9 January 2005

My Place: A Place in Time is a collection of photographs that portrays the importance of place in our everyday lives.
This exhibition is an ongoing multimedia documentary project arising out of the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury.

As part of the 2003 Arts Festival, The Press newspaper invited readers to volunteer to be photographed in places of special significance to them. My Place is part of a large documentary project directed by Glenn Busch at Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. Busch has a vision for a permanent visual and aural record of a slice of Canterbury life. The exhibition features 60 selected photographs reflecting a wide range of people and lifestyles.

My Place is the final segment of Busch’s project collating a permanent visual and aural record of a slice of New Zealand. In his concern for social and community wellbeing Busch sees self awareness as a prerequisite to social responsibility.

For the first four days of this exhibition there will be a small complementary collection of photographs in an adjacent gallery taken by local 13 – 16 year olds from their photography workshop capturing ‘Our Place in Ashburton’.

Ashburton Art Gallery has free admission and is open Tuesday to Friday 10am – 4pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1 – 4pm, closed Monday.

For further information or imagery contact Amanda Gregan on (03) 308 1133 info@ashburtonartgallery.org.nz

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