Double Take

Craig Potton

Hardback

Dimensions: 295 x 365mm

100 pp

ISBN 9781988550275

Double Take is the latest book from preeminent New Zealand landscape photographer Craig Potton. Ever since he started taking photographs he has often been inspired to take two images of the same scene, which with only a slight shift in the camera end up being very similar in composition and colour tone. This has often presented him with the question of what is the better photo.

Double Take addresses this dilemma by presenting these near identical twins side-by-side. Mostly middle-distant forest interiors, these complex, immersive photographs invite the viewer to look again and again, to fi nd subtle visual echoes and to appreciate the natural world unfolding in a new light. Beautifully produced in large format, this is a book to be savoured by anyone interested in contemporary landscape photography. In Craig's words, it exists to say 'Look, this is a place to reside for a fi xed moment. There are many things to see here.'

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Artist Statement

Craig Potton is New Zealand’s best known landscape photographer and an ardent conservationist. In pursuit of his photography he has tramped and climbed extensively in New Zealand, its sub-Antarctic Islands, the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, the Nepal Himalaya, and more recently Poland, India and Iceland. For more than four decades he has documented the New Zealand wilderness, exploring relationships between the concept of artistic beauty and wilderness in the natural world.

Craig started Craig Potton Publishing in 1987 and has had many of his own titles published, including New Zealand Aotearoa, one of New Zealand’s best-selling pictorial titles, Classic Walks of New Zealand, The Nature of Things, Moment and Memory, Offerings from Nepal and Here on Earth were all Montana New Zealand Book Award finalists in their publication year. More recently he has produced a major work New Zealand ‘s Wilderness Heritage and a large scale art book of his landscape photography, New Zealand.

He has worked as a Location/Stills Photographer on The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe motion pictures. His photographic reputation continues to grow, with exhibitions at Christchurch Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and a major retrospective at the Rowe Gallery, North Carolina, USA and Luksfera Gallery in Poland and Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. Craig has also conceived, screen-written and presented two New Zealand documentary series, Rivers (2010) and Wild Coasts (2011). At the 2011 New Zealand Scriptwriters Awards he won Best Documentary Script for his episode ‘Rangitata’.

Craig is an Ambassador for the New Zealand Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society and is actively involved in the New Zealand Green Party. He makes his home in Nelson and opened his own Gallery Store in Nelson in January 2014.
“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.