Featured Artist

Sean Dick

Sean has been shooting professional photography for 6 years and making images for several decades more. With a strong background in the computer universe, the digital camera and inkjet printing allowed Sean to use all the skills gathered over the years to get the maximum from his photographic tools.

As with a lot of photographers in New Zealand Sean has tackled all sorts of work from Salads, Trucks, Motorcycles and buildings through to landscapes, weddings and portraits. But his passion lies in the art of people photography as they provide the most diverse range of emotive material to make imagery from. “Every person has something beautiful to show.” he says “ The excitement is bringing that to the surface and capturing it in the camera”.

He adds that the opportunities for making art in photography are endless. Attending workshops by people like Sally Mason and Freeman Paterson has enabled him to realise an abstract and impressionistic style to compliment the more literal commercial photography. These workshops provide a space to focus on something separate from the normal work week and are very important for maintaining a fresh outlook on your photography.

People talk about the excitement of making prints in the darkroom, but Sean says there is just as much excitement seeing a print come off the printer. To enjoy that part of the process and to ensure maximum control over the quality of printing Sean prints all his own work and over the past 6 years has become an expert printer. Constantly striving for perfection when printing his own or clients work is what makes the difference between a hand printed image and standard lab work. Sean prints canvas and art prints for several leading Auckland photographers and the Adobe Ambassador for New Zealand, John Doogan, was impressed enough to ask Sean to print his 2008 exhibition for him.

Sean now runs his Photography and Printing business with his wife Sue from a custom built studio in Papakura. Sue is an artist in her own right and some of her work can be found as well in the portfolio section of their web site http://www.evokestudio.co.nz