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<P>This page is part of a frames-based website. Please visit the full website of <a href="http://www.victoriaginn.co.nz">Victoria Ginn</a> to view her photographs.</P>
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<P class="vtext">Victoria Ginn is a photographer and author whose art depicts aspects of self within the intertwined contexts of landscape and culture. Her various works lead one through selected areas of the world and into the colours and rhythms of humanity—emotion, imagination and identity.</P>
<P class="vtext">Ginn’s 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). </P>
<P class="vtext">Her book, <I>THE SPIRITED EARTH: Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific,</I> was published by Rizzoli, New York in 1990.
This 190-page colour book with 160 photographic images has also been published
in French and German editions—<I>Tihei Mauriora</I> (Arthaud) and <I>Geister der Erde</I> (Metamorphoses Verlag) respectively. <I>The Spirited Earth</I> is the culmination of six years work and travel throughout the Pacific and Asia, including research and publication.</P>
<P class="vtext">She has also written and published <I>FREEDOM’S EDGE: A memoir of a photographer’s journey and imprisonment in Afghanistan</I>—the<I> </I>story based on the memory of the photographer’s journey into Afghanistan in 1978 (includes 70 photographic plates). (1992-2000)</P>
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<P class="vtext"><B>Ginn’s Photographic Art Collections include:</B></P>
<P class="vtext"><I>OPENINGS</I><BR>
Spain and Turkey (1996)<BR>
The Flamenco, Belly Dance and Superimposition. An exploration of the religious/erotic/emotional potency contained within the dance traditions of the Flamenco and Belly Dance. The essay utilises architecture and superimposition as a subjective means of releasing the interior luminosity inherent within these traditions. Granada, Andalusia. Central Turkey and Istanbul.<BR>
<I>Work in Development.</I></P>
<P class="vtext"><I>THE SPIRITED EARTH</I><BR>
(Dance, Myth And Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific) (1984-90)<BR>
A creative/documentary study of performance art of South East Asia and the South Pacific.
Photographs include secular and sacred dance, drama, ritual expressions pertaining to tribal, folk and classical traditions of the peoples of Indonesia (Bali, Java, Sumatra), Kalimantan, Thailand, Nepal, India (Himalchal Pradesh, Haryana State, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka), New Zealand, Australia (Bathurst Island, Northern Territories, East Arnhem Land, Queensland), The Solomon Islands (Malaita, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Bellona), Vanuatu (Vao and Malekula Islands).</P>
<P class="vtext"><I>CLOUDS DRIFT</I><BR>
New Zealand (1991-3)<BR>
On the nature and relatedness of clouds and driftwood. <BR>
<I>To be included at a later date</I></P>
<P class="vtext"><I>FIGURE IN A NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE</I><BR>
New Zealand (1979-81)<BR>
A semi-theatrical essay on the juxtaposition of the human form with the landscape—the symbolic, aesthetic, emotional, sexual, sensual, contradictory and humorous interplay between the two. The images include the Elements—rock, fire, water, earth, field, tree, and the Human Form—performance artists, classical and experimental dancers, mime artists, and the naked body. Performers include: Limbs, N.Z. Ballet, Red Mole, amongst others.</P>
<P class="vtext"><I>FREEDOM’S EDGE</I><BR>
Afghanistan (1978)<BR>
A portrait of the photographer’s travels from Peshawar in Pakistan through to areas of pre-war Afganistan—Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-i Sharif, including a series taken of women prisoners while the photographer was held in custody in a Kabul prison. The series was partially destroyed. A written account—<I>Freedom’s Edge (Afghanistan—a memoir of a journey and imprisonment)</I>—was published in New Zealand in 2001.</P>
<P class="vtext"><I>THE AWAKENING HEART</I><BR>
Papua New Guinea (1977)<BR>
A sojourn among the Stone Age people of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, including the Huli tribes-people of the Ialuba Valley in the Tari Basin area. The photographs depict a people on the cusp of acculturation into the Western world and include portraits of forest magicians, sorcerers, dandies, bachelor cult leaders, funerary rites, and a way of life and dress now extinct.</P>
<P class="vtext"><I>INSIDE OUTSIDERS</I><BR>
New Zealand (1960s-70s)<BR>
Beginning with the image of an attacking bird, this series covers the formative period of the photographer’s perception and creative development. The series reflects a vision of New Zealand society as seen in the mid 1960s-early
1970s and reveals a portrait of Maori and Pakeha in the post-colonial context of alienation and belonging.</P>
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<P class="vtext"><B>Selected feature articles/interviews/reviews:</B></P>
<P class="vtext"><I>Geo</I> (Germany)<BR>
<I>Stern</I> (Germany)<BR>
<I>Animan</I> (Switzerland)<BR>
<I>Hurriyet</I> (Turkey)<BR>
<I>New Zealand Listener, Dominion, Evening Post, The N.Z Herald</I> (New Zealand)<BR>
<I>Geo, The Sydney Morning Herald</I> (Australia)<BR>
<I>Town and Country</I> (Canada)<BR>
<I>Sawasdee</I> (Hong Kong)<BR>
<I>Morning Calm</I> (Korea)<BR>
<I>Geo</I> (China)<BR>
<I>Scenes, Humanity, Voyages, Var Matin, Le Dauphine Liberty, Photographies, Grand Sud, Herrisson</I> (France)<BR>
<I>Publishers Weekly, Orangeburg Times-Democrat, Booklist, Photo Resource Centre Boston University, Castro Valley Forum, Houston Chronicle, Islands</I> (USA)
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<P class="vtext"><B>Contributor:</B></P>
<P class="vtext">Abrams Books, New York<BR>
Time-Life Books ,USA<BR>
Silver Burdett Ginn Educational Books, USA<BR>
Educational videos/tv, Great Britain, New Zealand.</P>
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<P class="vtext"><B>Creative Stills Advertising:</B></P>
<P class="vtext">USA<BR>
Switzerland<BR>
Italy</P>
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<P class="vtext"><B>Consultant:</B></P>
<P class="vtext">Sitges International Dance Festival, Spain</P>
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<P class="vtext"><B>Feature Film Stills:</B></P>
<P class="vtext"><I>UTU</I>—Chief Stills Photographer<BR>
<I>Mauri</I>—Pre budget conceptual stills and feature stills</P>
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