Photo: Dennis Brett

Harvey Benge lives and works from both Auckland and Paris and has done so since 1992. His interest in the international urban social landscape and the notion of parallel lives produces his characteristic “strange pictures in cities”. The main thrust of his work has been through published work, with nine books and editions published to date including: 2000, Aide-Memoire, Onestar Press, Paris. 2001, Lucky Box, A Guide to Modern Living, Dewi Lewis UK, 2003, First Ever Pictures of God, galerie Florence Loewy, Paris. 2005, Killing Time in Paradise , Scaden.com, Cologne. Killing Time was short-listed for the Prix du Livre at the 2005 Arles Festival. He also exhibits regularly in Paris and has shown in London, Cologne, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and New York and has work in major public and private collections. “One of the few photographers that today does as much for the poetics as for the philosophy of photography. “ ..Markus Shaden

Solaris 17.December 2005 - 5.February 2006

We cannot be sure of anything we look at with the naked eye any more than we can be sure that edited versions of things reconstituted by art captures its essence; but we can learn about the limitations of our knowledge by repeated attempts at grasping the ungraspable. This holds true equally for commonplace objects within our reach as for remote phenomena - for faces of those closest to us and the facts of history and the stars. Storr

Harvey Benge

33. Modern Photo-graphy

Price: $2200
Media: UV Print on Canvas
Edition: 1/3                                                   
Dimension: 760 x 1017 mm

Harvey Benge

34. NZ's Favourite

Price: $2200
Media: UV Print on Canvas
Edition: 1/3                                                   
Dimension: 760 x 1017 mm