Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich
Conversations with visual artists and arts practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand
Creative Connections with Mandy Jakich
Esther Bunning - Contemporary Photographic Artist
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Esther is a photographic artist living in Greytown in the Wairarapa. She has had a long successful photographic career firstly in wedding photography then in project and portrait photography. Her personal fine art photographic practice has become her main focus since 2020.
At her core Esther loves to illuminate others and give them their opportunity to shine.
She is passionate about giving people a voice and is interested in the emotion and story behind a work. It's important to her to balance this with her desire to create, experiment and explore, and to be curious - in a less conventional way.
Esther and I talk about how and why she loves to work with people, her wedding photography days and how this career shaped her skills, techniques and influenced her future photographic practice. She shares her experimental creative process and some of the tricks, techniques and tools she uses for achieving such unique photographs. We explore some of her other collections and the meaning behind the work she does.
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