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Craig Potton is a noted New Zealand photographer and 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 Iceland. For more than three decades he has documented the New Zealand wilderness, exploring relationships between the concept of artistic beauty and wilderness in the natural world. Born in Nelson, New Zealand, he gained degrees in Eastern Religion and English, then, after a brief teaching career, began working full-time for the conservation movement. He remains actively involved in conservation work more than thirty years later.

Craig Potton is the founder and co-owner of Craig Potton Publishing, an independent publishing house dedicated to quality publications in photography, natural history, art, and general non-fiction.

Craig's own books are widely regarded. New Zealand Aotearoa is one of New Zealand's best-selling pictorial titles, and 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 worked as a Location/Stills Photographer on The Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe motion pictures. His photographic reputation continues to grow, with recent exhibitions at Christchurch Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, a major retrospective at the Rowe Gallery, North Carolina, USA, and major exhibitions in Poland and Israel.

Craig makes his home in Nelson, New Zealand and, with his son now at university, is starting to paint and write. Craig is an Executive member of the New Zealand Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society and is actively involved in the New Zealand Green Party.

"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

Craig Potton Gallery
18 Buckingham St
Arrowtown
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Ph + 64 3 442 0093
Fx + 64 3 442 0063
Em gallery@craigpotton.co.nz

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