How The Light Gets In | Exhibition Opening
Fri, 19 Sept
|Tairāwhiti Museum
John Pennington exhibition opens at Tairāwhiti Museum
Time & Location
19 Sept 2025, 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Tairāwhiti Museum , 10 Stout Street, Whataupoko, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
How The Light Gets In - Exhibition Opening at Tairāwhiti Museum by John Pennington
John is a photographer who works on long-term community-based documentary projects.
The project (ongoing) How the Light Gets In reflects two of John’s preoccupations. One: how photography can be used to access a geographical place and its communities. For someone new to Tairawhiti this involves photography as sense making, orientation and discovery. By its nature photography forces the photographer to observe closely, to notice the mundane, the comical and the significant. It’s a work of immersion and integration.
The physical landscape is mediated and enriched by the people who live there. Engaging with this richness in all its variety and diversity is an important part of John’s practice. Taking his cue from the Leonard Cohen song of the same name John’s portraits hopefully reflect our imperfections and vulnerabilities not as barriers or obstacles to understanding and…