Features | Place in time

A personal narrative in time(s) of emergency: Part One

Canterbury Anniversary Day, AMP Show, 2004.

Tim J. Veling

07 April
2020

The following text comprises part one of a two-part feature.

Originally drafted in response to the Curating Under Pressure conference held at the University of Canterbury in 2015, the first draft found its way – quite randomly and without opportunity for me edit and elaborate on certain vague statements – into an e-book publication. At the time, rather than ask to have the draft removed from circulation, I thought it best to keep it online. I felt it better to be part of the main conversation, in whatever form, than to self-isolate on its fringes. (Excuse the pun…)

Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement

North enterance within cordoned off grounds of Christ Church Cathedral. Scanned from 8x10" negative.

Tim J. Veling

25 March
2020

Place in Time photographers Tim J. Veling and Bridgit Anderson are working with the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project and Anglican Diocese to document the reinstatement of Christchurch's most iconic building.

A message from isolation

Tim J. Veling

24 March
2020

“May you live in interesting times”

With the decision by the New Zealand Government to escalate the Covid-19 national threat level from 2 to 3, moving to Level 4 on the 25th of March, it indeed does seem we live in very ‘interesting times’.

Mitchell Bright: Cultivated

30 January
2019

An exhibition of work by Mitchell Bright at CoCA Toi Moroki, Christchurch, 26th February – 17th March, 2019.

PiT in Amsterdam

Tim J. Veling

20 September
2018

It’s a busy time for Place in Time. I am currently making my way to Amsterdam. There, as well at attending the Unseen Photo Festival, I will meet up with the World Press Photo Foundation and do a presentation to staff to promote our archive and activities, as well as try and devise new ways to support and help engaged, long form documentary and photo-journalistic projects in New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.

To Watch the Water: Bodies of water captured and constructed.

Harriet Litten
Bojana Rimbovska

14 September
2018

Throughout history humans have held a desire to explore, interpret and record our environments. From its early iterations, photography has been considered a naturalistic and accurate method of representation; the perfect medium to satiate our humanistic desire to document the landscape. Exalted as a method able to provide truth of representation, photography has grown as a ‘documentary’ style of artistic representation.

To Watch the Water

Ella Hickford
Megan Hopkins

04 September
2018

To Watch the Water, an exhibition by Megan Hopkins and Ella Hickford, The Corner Store, 314 Cashel Street, 6th to 15th of September.

Interview: Glenn Busch By Tim Veling

Glenn BuschMan with a transistor radio1973

17 June
2018

Glenn Busch was initially drawn to photography through its biographical and documentary possibilities. In 1973, he had his first exhibition and founded Auckland’s first contemporary photography gallery. Busch’s photographs, like those of his sometime collaborator Bruce Connew, are firmly entrenched in the social realist tradition of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.

CoCA presents a solo exhibition by Christchurch photographer Tim

30 May
2018

Tim Veling's Vestiges is a collection of work taken in Christchurch's red zone, highlighting seasonal changes, unpicking concepts of time, proximity, memory, and place.

Caryline Boreham’s Disco Volante

15 May
2018

Disco Volante was shown at In Situ Photo Project, Christchurch, 17 October – 10 November 2017. The images and text are shared here with permission.

Sight Unseen

Tim J. Veling

25 April
2018

In Situ Photo Project at The Welder, 9 – 30 September 2017. Allan McDonald, Meg Porteous, Haruhiko Sameshima and David Straight. Curated by Tim J. Veling.

We Passed the Setting Sun

Former New Zealand Shipping Company Building, Tokomaru Bay, 2016 110 x 137 cm

23 April
2018

Chris Corson-Scott

In Situ Photo Project – 12 August – 16 September 2016