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Chris Corson-Scott

b. 1985

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Chris Corson-Scott speaks to the essence of photography as a medium bound to the attempt to arrest the fleeting moment, remaining resolutely insistent on the use of analogue film and ‘old-fashioned’ 8×10 view-camera as critical to the aesthetic of his work. Exhibited widely, his work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, and photographic exhibitions in Switzerland and China; Laurence Simmons and Christina Barton have written important essays on his work; he has curated and published collaboratively, notably with art historian Edward Hanfling and Chris Holdaway’s Compound Press; and is developing a feature documentary film in New Zealand, and a monograph for an international publisher.

Corson-Scott produces haunting images that sit within a global conceptual discourse focussed on the international structures that facilitate wealth extraction from individual countries’ natural resources, and the ways in which these give rise to cycles of development and decay. The photographs ask us to pay attention to the future of human occupation of our planet; and consider how the quest for sustainable development in this century will collide with these structures. Reminding us of our collective dependence upon the natural world, his images are hard-won. Unsettling juxtapositions of historic industry within the reclaiming natural world are uncovered by diligent research and multi-day hikes lugging an 8 x 10 camera, capturing the past before it disappears entirely.

Exhibitions include Tēnei Ao Tūroa – This Enduring World: Mark Adams, Natalie Robertson, Chris Corson-Scott (2022) at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery; The Devil’s Blind Spot (2016-17) at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; Kinder’s Presence (2013-14) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki; History in the Taking: 40 Years of PhotoForum (2014) at The University of Auckland’s Gus Fisher Gallery; Photo 14, Maag Halle, Zurich, Switzerland; My Place (2013) Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Recent Auckland Photography (2013) at North Art; and solo exhibitions at Photospace Gallery, Wellington; the artist-run space Snake Pit, New Photographs (2012); and Photographs (2011) at Arts House Trust Pah Homestead. With art historian Edward Hanfling he is the co-author of Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography (Photoforum, Auckland: 2013).

Public Collections include Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland; Chartwell Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Arts House Trust, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland; NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Corson-Scott lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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  • Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio La Gonda
    Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio La Gonda, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1890 mm

    Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio La Gonda
    Mark Adams Retouching Photographs at Studio La Gonda, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1890 mm

  • Cliffs and Rockfalls, Awhitu Peninsula
    Cliffs and Rockfalls, Awhitu Peninsula, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    Cliffs and Rockfalls, Awhitu Peninsula
    Cliffs and Rockfalls, Awhitu Peninsula, 2015

    Archival pigment print

  • Evening, The Frank Sargeson House, Esmonde Road, Takapuna
    Evening, The Frank Sargeson House, Esmonde Road, Takapuna, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    Evening, The Frank Sargeson House, Esmonde Road, Takapuna
    Evening, The Frank Sargeson House, Esmonde Road, Takapuna, 2015

    Archival pigment print

  • Winter Morning, Remains of the SS Lawrence, Mokihinui
    Winter Morning, Remains of the SS Lawrence, Mokihinui, 2016

    Archival pigment print

    Winter Morning, Remains of the SS Lawrence, Mokihinui
    Winter Morning, Remains of the SS Lawrence, Mokihinui, 2016

    Archival pigment print

  • Kotanui Island and Rangitoto, After John Kinder
    Kotanui Island and Rangitoto, After John Kinder, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1200 x 1480 mm

    Kotanui Island and Rangitoto, After John Kinder
    Kotanui Island and Rangitoto, After John Kinder, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1200 x 1480 mm

  • Undersea Cables, Pink Beach, Whangaparaoa
    Undersea Cables, Pink Beach, Whangaparaoa, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    Undersea Cables, Pink Beach, Whangaparaoa
    Undersea Cables, Pink Beach, Whangaparaoa, 2015

    Archival pigment print

  • Collapsing Roof, Gisborne Sheep Shearers Woolstore, Tokomaru Bay
    Collapsing Roof, Gisborne Sheep Shearers Woolstore, Tokomaru Bay, 2016

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    Collapsing Roof, Gisborne Sheep Shearers Woolstore, Tokomaru Bay
    Collapsing Roof, Gisborne Sheep Shearers Woolstore, Tokomaru Bay, 2016

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  • My Father's Studio, Three Months After His Death From Cancer
    My Father's Studio, Three Months After His Death From Cancer, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1910 mm

    My Father's Studio, Three Months After His Death From Cancer
    My Father's Studio, Three Months After His Death From Cancer, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1910 mm

  • John Perry In His Workshop, Former Regent Cinema, Helensville
    John Perry In His Workshop, Former Regent Cinema, Helensville, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    John Perry In His Workshop, Former Regent Cinema, Helensville
    John Perry In His Workshop, Former Regent Cinema, Helensville, 2015

    Archival pigment print

  • Last Light, Tokomaru Bay Wharf
    Last Light, Tokomaru Bay Wharf, 2016

    Archival pigment print

    Last Light, Tokomaru Bay Wharf
    Last Light, Tokomaru Bay Wharf, 2016

    Archival pigment print

  • Wildflowers In a Development Near Tauranga
    Wildflowers In a Development Near Tauranga, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    1350 x 1660 mm

    Wildflowers In a Development Near Tauranga
    Wildflowers In a Development Near Tauranga, 2015

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    1350 x 1660 mm

  • New Year's Day
    New Year's Day, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1850 mm

    New Year's Day
    New Year's Day, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    1500 x 1850 mm

  • Remants of Paratutae Wharf, Whatipu
    Remants of Paratutae Wharf, Whatipu, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    Remants of Paratutae Wharf, Whatipu
    Remants of Paratutae Wharf, Whatipu, 2015

    Archival pigment print

  • Bulldozed Farmland in Albany
    Bulldozed Farmland in Albany, 2014

    Archival pigment print

    1350 x 1660 mm

    Bulldozed Farmland in Albany
    Bulldozed Farmland in Albany, 2014

    Archival pigment print

    1350 x 1660 mm

  • Abandoned Chicory Kiln on the Clutha River, Inch Clutha
    Abandoned Chicory Kiln on the Clutha River, Inch Clutha, 2016

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    Abandoned Chicory Kiln on the Clutha River, Inch Clutha
    Abandoned Chicory Kiln on the Clutha River, Inch Clutha, 2016

    Archival pigment print

  • The Neighbour's Garden
    The Neighbour's Garden, 2012

    Archival pigment print

    1300 x 1640 mm

    The Neighbour's Garden
    The Neighbour's Garden, 2012

    Archival pigment print

    1300 x 1640 mm

  • Former New Zealand Shipping Company Building, Tokomaru Bay
    Former New Zealand Shipping Company Building, Tokomaru Bay, 2016

    Archival pigment print

    Former New Zealand Shipping Company Building, Tokomaru Bay
    Former New Zealand Shipping Company Building, Tokomaru Bay, 2016

    Archival pigment print

  • Passing Cloud, Pine Street
    Passing Cloud, Pine Street, 2010

    C-type photograph

    970 x 1200 mm

    Passing Cloud, Pine Street
    Passing Cloud, Pine Street, 2010

    C-type photograph

    970 x 1200 mm

  • Photographs of our industrial past
    Photographs of our industrial past

    NBR, Weekend Review, article by John Daly-Peoples

    June 30, 2017

     

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  • Chris Corson-Scott: The path less traveled
    Chris Corson-Scott: The path less traveled

    The Big Idea, article by Hannah Mackintosh

    9 June 2017

     

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  • A Q&A with Chris Corson-Scott reveals what lies behind his stunning photographs
    A Q&A with Chris Corson-Scott reveals what lies behind his stunning photographs

    Denizen, interview by Madeline Saxton-Beer

    9 June 2017

     

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  • Four photos that show how New Zealand is changing
    Four photos that show how New Zealand is changing

    The Wireless

    Thursday 16 February, 2017

     

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  • Photographer Chris Corson-Scott on We Passed the Setting Sun
    Photographer Chris Corson-Scott on We Passed the Setting Sun

    The Press, article by Warren Feeney

    August 25, 2016

     

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  • Town and Around
    Town and Around

    Landfall Review Online, by Georgina McWhirter

    February 1, 2014

     

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  • The Way We Were
    The Way We Were

    NZ Herald, article by TJ McNamara

    January 25, 2014

     

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  • Waking Up Auckland: Chris Corson-Scott
    Waking Up Auckland: Chris Corson-Scott

    D-Photo

    May 15, 2013

     

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  • Significant Photographic Exhibitions in Auckland
    Significant Photographic Exhibitions in Auckland

    Webb's Catalogue 372

    2014


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  • Photography at NorthArt
    Photography at NorthArt

    EyeContact, article by Zara Sigglekow

    August 7, 2013

     

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  • Chris Corson-Scott at Auckland's Snake Pit
    Chris Corson-Scott at Auckland's Snake Pit

    Harvey Benge Blog, article by Harvey Benge

    September 21, 2012


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  • Every Picture Tells A Story
    Every Picture Tells A Story

    NZ Life and Leisure 52, article by Ron Brownson

    November/December 2013


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  • Framing Identity: Chris Corson-Scott

    Corson-Scott in conversation with Simon Morris, Janet Lilo and Shahidul Alam about the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography theme, identity.

    May, 2017


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  • CHRIS CORSON SCOTT | Evanescent Monuments
    October 5 — November 9, 2018
    CHRIS CORSON SCOTT | Evanescent Monuments

    Solo exhibition

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  • CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT | Dreaming in the Anthropocene
    June 13 — July 29, 2017
    CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT | Dreaming in the Anthropocene

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    June 14 — July 15, 2016
    CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT | "We passed the setting sun"

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  • CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT | New Photographs
    December 3, 2014 — January 16, 2015
    CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT | New Photographs

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  • An Architecture of Things
    April 4 — April 22, 2017
    An Architecture of Things

    Stephen Bambury / Los Carpinteros / Chris Corson-Scott / Jennifer French / Anthony McCall / Kazu Nakagawa / Marie Shannon

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  • Dec 13, 2016 — Jan 28, 2017
    "taking stock"

    Stephen Bambury / Ann Shelton / Phil Dadson / Anthony McCall / Kazu Nakagawa / Galia Amsel / Chris-Corson Scott / John Edgar / Marie Shannon / Vincent Ward / Heather Straka / Jennifer French

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  • SOLID COLOUR: Part II
    October 10 — November 20, 2015
    SOLID COLOUR: Part II

    Stephen Bambury / Helen Calder / Chris Corson-Scott / Phil Dadson / Amanda Gruenwald / Andrea Jaun / Shannon Novak

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  • TRUTH + FICTION
    May 20 — June 20, 2015
    TRUTH + FICTION

    Roger Ballen / Stella Brennan / Chris Corson-Scott / Jennifer French / Michael Ghent / Alan Miller / Marie Shannon / Ann Shelton / Vincent Ward / Christine Webster

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