Shaun Higgins

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Shaun Higgins is curator pictorial at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. His research interests range from early photographic history in both technology and practice, to its role in documenting social history, conflict and landscape. He engages in the process of photography with cameras old and new, and has applied both historical and technical knowledge to exhibitions for two decades, ranging from Sir Edmund Hillary: Everest and Beyond (2002) to Photographing Early Auckland (2019). Recent research includes a chapter on Clement L. Wragge’s magic lantern lectures in The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting (Routledge, 2020); articles ‘An Early Photographic View of Auckland’ (Back Story: Journal of New Zealand Art, Media & Design History, 2018), ‘Daguerreotypes by Hartley Webster’ (Journal of New Zealand Art, Media & Design History, 2016) and ‘Early New Zealand Daguerreotypes’ (The Daguerreian Annual, 2015); and the book The Anzacs: An Inside View of New Zealanders at Gallipoli (Penguin Random House, 2015). He has an MA, BA and PGDip from the University of Auckland in anthropology, art history and museum studies, and further qualifications in photography and care and identification of photographs.

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Shaun Higgins

Shaun Higgins

A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa

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