Banner image: an excerpt from Carolina Prato Casanova’s, Green Fire, Orange-fronted parakeet, Kākāriki karaka, from Wings from the South.
Talks and launches
Throughout the bookfair on Saturday 8 August there’ll be a series of 20 minute book launches and talks by artists and publishers with work in the fair. The talks will be adjacent to the bookfair. Take a seat and support Aotearoa’s photobook makers!
10.30am – 10.50am
Pākiki Press
Harete Tito is launching Where You Are is a story about my mother and me and dementia. it is a story about my journey with her, told through images, writings, memories, before and after she passed. It is a story of many timelines and intergenerational stories of healing. A story of love and loss, but most of all, I hope it is a story that shares light for anyone who has experienced dementia in their lives. Where You Are is the first published book of Pākiki Press - a creation of Harete.
11.00am – 11.20am
Rim Books
Mary Macpherson is launching one foot on the bottom a photobook about childhood or the space that childhood once occupied. Using family Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and '60s taken by her late mother Evelyn, and her contemporary photographs, the work creates a portrait of family holidays by the beach, lake and river.
Richard Wotton. For more than fifty years, Richard has photographed the world with curiosity, patience and an acute eye for the extraordinary in the everyday. This beautifully produced volume brings together portraits, architecture and intimate interiors, revealing the richness and diversity of one of New Zealand's quietly distinctive photographic practices.
11.30am – 11.50am
Lenses of South American women in Aotearoa
Carolina Prato Casanova presents Wings from the South a two-cover photobook inspired by the endemic birds of Chile and New Zealand, with the purpose of carrying memory, culture, and knowledge to future generations.
12.00pm – 12.20pm
Lenses of South American women in Aotearoa
Mariela Durnhofer Rubolino is launching Her artwork - a collection of words and images that tell about her personal life experiences as a South American woman in Aotearoa.
12.30pm – 12.50pm
PhotoForum
PhotoForum will launch two new books at Photobook NZ by Tāmaki Makaurau artists Paris Munro and Jake Morton. PhotoForum has been a major influence in supporting and publishing photography in Aotearoa New Zealand for over 50 years and runs an annual publishing programme supported by membership subscriptions and selected from an open call. The books published for 2025/26 are A Call Towards Home by Paris Munro (PhotoForum #107) and Constellation by Jake Morton (PhotoForum #108)
1.00pm – 1.20pm
Youth Book Project
Rangatahi from kura in the Te Whanganui-a-Tara region are launching their collaborative photobook exploring their unique perspectives on the world they live in.
1.30 - 1.50pm
Pōneke Photo Press
Pōneke Photo Press is a small, limited-edition zine dedicated to showcasing Wellington photographers and the city's rich culture and people. Each edition gives one photographer and one theme room to tell its story. Launched in early 2026 with Wendy McCawe's Drag, Pōneke Photo Press is back with Edition 2 – Trollied, by Jenn Hadley.
2 - 2.20pm
Andy Spain
Andy will launch his latest foldout panoramic book; Every Building on the Karangahape Road. An edition of 4 plus 1 artists copy. This follows on from Every Building on Cuba Street which he made 2 years ago. Alongside this Andy will show two zines, one on the buildings of Shelly Bay and one on the Kaiwharawhara Stream.
2.30 - 2.50pm
Replika Publishing
Freya Brooke Verona Copeland is launching her two latest publications Fang and ne’er
such a thing in New Zealand for the first time. Both of which were short listed for the
Australia New Zealand Photobook award.
Fang is a personal exploration of how a place can awaken trauma, born from the artist’s
experience during the DANA floods in Catarroja, Valencia, in October 2024. Rather than
documenting the disaster itself, the project examines the emotional and psychological
aftermath—flashbacks, imagined escape routes, and the struggle to navigate streets
transformed by mud and destruction.
ne’er such a thing, a photographic correspondence between artists Rada Nastai and
Freya Brooke Verona Copeland grew from a mutual sense of displacement. The book
navigates non-existence within the confines of a five-chapter narrative in which
semiotic symbols become the narrative thread. Pulling from their individual archives,
the artists have brought together collected artefacts and authored images.
Printed in Risography, the book includes inserts on tracing paper and hand-printed
anthotypes on 100% cotton cloth, all sewn in by domestic sewing machine.