Victoria Ginn is an ethnographic documentary photographer and author from New Zealand whose art depicts aspects of self within the intertwined contexts of landscape and culture.
An explorer and adventurer, she has travelled extensively and her documentary photographs portray life, dance, mythology, religion, culture, costume and ritual in countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Bali, Burma, India, Java, Kalimantan, Nepal, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sumatra, Thailand, Turkey and Vanuatu. Victoria Ginn's documentary photographs of the cultures of Asia and the Pacific are copyrighted but are all available for sale.
Ginn’s photographic art is internationally recognized and her anthropological photographs have been exhibited at the Museum for the Performing Arts, New York, and are represented in the permanent collections of the George Pompidou Art Museum, Paris and art institutes in New Zealand (Te Papa, Dunedin Art Gallery, Dowse Art Museum). Victoria Ginn's photographs also grace many private collections. Please revisit this site for news of upcoming art exhibitions of Victoria Ginn's photographic work.
Ginn is author of three photography books: THE SPIRITED EARTH: Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific (Rizzoli, 1990) and FREEDOM’S EDGE: A memoir of a photographer's journey and imprisonment in Afghanistan (Hazard Press, 2000).
Her most recent photography book:FIGURE IN THE NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE was published in 2005. This is a Limited Edition Book - 128 pages of photographs on 150 gsm matt art paper. Signed and dedicated copies may be ordered directly (DETAILS...)
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