NZIPP NEWS

    If you were present at the Gala Awards Evening in Christchurch this past August, you will already know what a big night it was for NZIPP Accredited Professional Photographer Steve Hussey. Taking out the 2026 New Zealand Professional Documentary...

  Last Thursday, NZIPP Auckland hosted its post awards event, bringing together photographers from across the region for an evening of inspiration, education, and celebration.   We were fortunate to welcome Kerikeri-based photographer Graham Murphy, who...

    Matt Palmer needs little introduction around the NZIPP community, but his latest accomplishment is a big one. Having won top honour of the 2026 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year, Matt continues to raise the bar for visual storytelling...

    I didn’t enter the Iris Awards in 2025 trying to win New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year. I was chasing something else entirely, I was determined to become a Grand Master of Photography.   I’d been working towards it for years and I...

    Photography wasn’t the career plan.   For more than 25 years, my working life has been in IT, primarily supporting pharmacies and businesses around New Zealand. It’s a job that has put a lot of kilometres under the wheels and taken me to most corners of...

  This week we're excited to introduce Graham Murphy, the creative power behind Kerikeri's Northern exposure Photography and one of the newest additions to the NZIPP Honours Council Team. Graham brings a unique perspective to our community. Before mastering...

    Ok is this the most whack title so far in the Pro Report? Probably. Let's get into it. Have you ever groaned when it's been cheerfully suggested, "You should do a personal project!" Really?! After spending the latest season, photographing other people's...

  The NZIPP Iris Awards Gala Evening sponsored by Ilford and CRK is the pinnacle of an incredible week celebrating photography. It’s a night where we come together to recognise excellence, celebrate achievements, reconnect with friends, and applaud the...

    When we talk about the New Zealand Photography Show, it’s easy to focus on the incredible speaker lineup, trade show, and live Iris Awards judging. But there’s so much more happening throughout the week that many people don’t realise is completely free...

    "There is a place I return to where the wind doesn’t ask questions and the land remembers everything. Light moves slowly there, like breath across a surface. Nothing is sharp. Nothing needs to be. I follow it. Not to capture, but to feel where it leads."...

  My photography career started in 1996, when I opened a studio in inner-city Christchurch. I focused mainly on people photography until the Christchurch earthquakes. After that, I reinvented myself as a travel photographer and educator, which turned out to be a...

On Monday 22nd June, Canterbury Westland held their third 10:10:10 event at the Little Andromeda Theatre in central Christchurch. This event was extremely well supported, with over a hundred people in attendance. That really is a HUGE amount of support from the wide...

  July 4th - the biggest firework for Independence Day A perfect, fragile porcelain-blue sky with a few white fluffy clouds, green grass sloping gently down to blue-green water which is ruffled by a light breeze. A dolphin's fin breaks the surface and disappears...

  When I was named 2025 New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year, I felt a huge sense of gratitude, but also a strange sense of stillness afterwards. Because the truth is, the award itself was never really the point.   Entering awards has always...

    The Iris Awards and New Zealand Amateur Photography Awards continue to be two of the most important opportunities on our photographic calendar, providing a platform for photographers across New Zealand and Australia to challenge themselves, share their...