Edith AmituanaiPhotographer
Edith Amituanai’s work draws on documentary and constructed photographic traditions. Intimacy with the world she photographs is important to her, along with an ongoing contemplation of the idea of home.
2008
Edith Amituanai on Tagata Pasifika (TVNZ1) - one of the artists chosen for the prestigious Walters Prize for Déjeuner 2007 Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland.
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2006 and 2007
Stories of migration are prominent in Edith’s photographs, as is seen in the story of the migration of her own family in the ‘Déjeuner' series.
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2005
An essay by Anna Sanderson from 'Contemporary New Zealand Photographers'. Edited by Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman (Mountain View Publishing).
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2009
La Fine del Mondo is a series of portraits of a Burmese refugee family in Massey, Auckland
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2008
In this article, which appeared in the Sunday Star Times, 26 October 2008, Edith Amituanai (then aged 28) talks to Rose Hoare. At the time, Edith was one of four finalists for the lucrative Walters Prize, which was about to be announced.
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