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CRAIG POTTON PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTO LIBRARY

CRAIG POTTON GALLERY

Craig Potton Gallery - fine New Zealand photography
18 Buckingham St
PO Box 260
Arrowtown
Phone/Fax + 64 3 442 0093
Email gallery@craigpotton.co.nz

Craig Potton is New Zealand's pre-eminent landscape photographer, best known for his powerful and evocative images of New Zealand's wild places. He has photographed extensively throughout and the rest of the world, and more recently, worked as a Location/Stills Photographer on The Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan, and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe movies.

Craig Potton Gallery in Arrowtown is an exciting new venture, offering his superb photographs as both framed and unframed master prints. A wide range of New Zealand photographic and art books, and a full national and international shipping service are also available.

We are currently in the process of getting all the gallery images on line for viewing and purchasing. If there's something you've seen that you'd like more information on, then email gallery@craigpotton.co.nz

Storm, Milford Sound
Limited edition
Medium (Unframed) $5000 NZD

Large (Unframed) $1250

Medium (Unframed) $575

Small, mounted on matt $165

Rainforest, South Westland

Large (Unframed) $1250

Medium (Unframed) $575

Small, mounted on matt $165

Photo Library

Craig Potton photographic images are available for commercial purposes through the Photo Library at Head Office in Nelson.  Copyright reproduction permission can be granted for commercial use on payment of the appropriate fee. Rates are set according to usage, profile and print runs. Details of reproduction costs for commercial and editorial use and prices for photographic prints, along with an extensive selection of Craig Potton images, can be viewed on our Photo Library website

www.craigpottonphotos.co.nz

Major areas covered in the collection are:
- New Zealand's National Parks
- Wilderness areas including sub-Antarctic islands
- Native forest, flowers and plants
- New Zealand's wildlife; including native birds, insects and animals
- Natural processes and features such as geothermal and volcanic activity, geological formations, rivers, lakes, mountains, waterfalls etc.
- Antarctica landscape and wildlife, especially the Dry Valley and Ross Sea areas
- Nepal
- The Pacific region, particularly Samoa, Borneo and New Caledonia

Please note that some premium images may not be available for commercial purposes. For further information contact Arnott Potter - photos@cpp.co.nz

Background:

Craig Potton is a noted New Zealand photographer and conservationist. Born in Nelson, New Zealand, he gained degrees in Eastern Religion and English, then, after a brief teaching career, began working full-time for the conservation movement. He remains actively involved in conservation work more than thirty years later. Craig is now established as one of New Zealand's leading photographers of wilderness landscapes, and in pursuit of his photography he has tramped and climbed extensively in New Zealand, its sub-Antarctic Islands, the Dry Valley and Ross Sea areas of Antarctica and the Nepal Himalaya. More recently, he has worked as Location/Stills Photographer on Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe motion pictures, and has had a major retrospective exhibition at North Carolina's Rowe Gallery in the United States.

Craig is the founder and owner of Craig Potton Publishing, a company based in Nelson where he lives with his son Michael. His photographic publications include Images of a Limestone Landscape; Tongariro - A Sacred Gift; Above New Zealand; Offerings from Nepal; Wearable Art - Design for the Body; Classic Walks of New Zealand; Moment and Memory; Seasons: The New Zealand Year; The Nature of Things; The Southern Alps; Improbable Eden; and now the bestselling New Zealand pictorial book, New Zealand: Aotearoa.

"A good photo can sometimes be an arrow to the heart of things, alluding to or eliciting an immediate encounter. It is the nature of art and the way of nature to push us beyond the narrow realities we often become trapped in, to new or forgotten realms of pleasure." Craig Potton, Moment and Memory.

Exhibition Listing

- 1989 Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand.
- 1992 'Tongariro' exhibition at Ruapehu Gallery; sponsored by Kodak New Zealand.
- 1995 'Nepal Offerings' exhibition at SOCA Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; sponsored by Kodak New Zealand.
- 1996 A major exhibition at New Zealand Photofest, Wellington, New Zealand; sponsored by Photolab.
- 2001 'New Zealand Landscapes' exhibition at Wilderness Gallery, Tasmania, Australia.
- 2002 Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand.
- 2004 'Improbable Eden - photos from the Dry Valleys of Anatarctica'; exhibition at International Antarctic Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 2004 A major retrospective at North Carolina's Rowe Gallery, USA.
- 2005 Antarctic and Wilderness Images, Suter Art Gallery, Nelson
- 2005 'In the Eye of the Albatross', Southland Museum & Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand
- 2005 'Festival of Colour', Wanaka, New Zealand
- 2005 'Finding the Wild', Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
- 2006/7 'Floating on Ice: Photographs from the Ross Sea, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand
- 2007 Reveries: An Exhibition (17 images) as part of a major show on consciousness of death. Curated by Helen Ennis, Canberra Portrait Gallery, Australia
-2008 Manapouri Group Show, New Zealand National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
- 2008 ŒTerrain‚, Catchment Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
- 2008 A major exhibition at Luksfera Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- 2008 A major exhibition at the Old City Square and the Arsenal Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
- 2008 ŒCarbon Sink‚ two-man exhibition with Andrew Drummond, Catchment Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
- 2008 ŒFinding the Wild‚ exhibition at Salamander Gallery, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 2009 exhibition at the Cinematheques galleries in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as part of Israel‚s New Zealand Film Festival