Artist Statement
Finding beauty where none is immediately apparent and value in banality, photographic artist Cally Whitham’s camera collects images of ordinary things we no longer see. Perceiving, altering and reflecting through nostalgia and memory, she is a pictorialist at heart, layering her photographs with emotion, transmuting the ordinary into the romantic, nostalgic and surreal. Presenting unpromising subjects in an ideal way, she asks the viewer to look more closely at the forgotten or taken-for-granted, to reawaken the value these subjects once held.

Touched with beauty, her works explore, through ordinariness and familiarity, the ways in which personal milieus are recorded, returning to subjects recaptured in shadows of times past, and seeking the subtle, forgotten and overlooked.

 

 

Chronology


1992 Graduated from Carrington Design School in Photography (now AUT)

1992 Established photography business specializing in people, fashion and weddings

2000 Family

2010 Came back to my work in Fine Art Photography


Bibliography


2011 Revista Now #11

2011 Carne Mag, Issue 12# September

2012 Photoshop Tutorials Interview

2012 Disparo 2012

2012 North & South Magazine, November, New Zealand's Current Affairs Magazine

2012 Don't Post Me interview, September

2012 Rooms Art Uncovered Magazine #Issue 6

2012 Manor House Quarterly, Spring

2012 Guest Advisor for Digital Photographer #124 July

2012 Feature, Zoom Magazine, Animals and Humans in the Mirror Special Edition, June

2012 Photo of the Day, Italian Vogue, 28 September

2012 psfk blog feature

2012 Italian Vogue, selection of the day

2013 IFamous feature, February

2013 My Modern Met Blog Feature, March

2013 Kia Ora Magazine, Hot Selection, March

2013 Homestyle Magazine Feature, March

2013 Super Deluxe #2, March

2013 Frankie Magazine, #53

2013 Practical Photoshop, December 2013

2014 Aesthetica #56, December/January

2014 We Transfer, Germany site, one months exposure

2014 Lightroom magazine, June

2014 Arty Magazine # 28


Awards


1993 AIPA (Advertising & Illustrative Photography Association) Black and White, New Zealand

1993 AIPA (Advertising & Illustrative Photography Association) Still Life, New Zealand

1993 Kodak Excellence in Portraiture, Gold Award, New Zealand

1993 Kodak Excellence in Portraiture, 2 x Merit Awards, New Zealand

2011 Winner of Blurb + Behance photo book opportunity, International

2013 Kiwi Rails Great Scenic Journeys Landscape Award, New Zealand



Exhibitions

1993 The Five Graces, Stanley Street Gallery, New Zealand

1993 Items of Adoration, Morgan Le-Fay Gallery, New Zealand

2014 Joint Show, The Artists Room, New Zealand