Mark Adams: A Survey -- He Kohinga Whakaahua (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781991309013)

Dr Sarah Farrar is head of curatorial and learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on contemporary art, curatorial activism and the complexities of cross-cultural exchange. Her recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Taimoana Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa, with Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd and Nathan Pohio, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2024- 26; and the retrospective exhibition Robin White: Te Whanaketanga Something Is Happening Here, co-curated with Dr Nina Tonga. Mark Adams was born in Linwood, Otautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 1949. He studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Christchurch (graduating in 1970), where he taught himself large-format analogue photography. Since then, he has photographed all over the country focusing on the cultural convergences of postcolonial Aotearoa New Zealand, its landscapes and its people. He is notable for his groundbreaking work photographing Samoan tatau practices and revisiting sites of historical importance in Aotearoa New Zealand.