Patrick Reynolds

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Patrick Reynolds (b. 1962) is probably best known for his exceptional architectural and interior photographs that appear in publications such as New Zealand Home + Entertaining and Vogue Living. However over the past twenty years he has developed a highly successful parallel career as a leading photographer within New Zealand contemporary visual arts. As an exhibiting artist his work is about New Zealand landscape, nature, architecture, patterns of seeing, and - just as importantly - about the art and place of photography.

Reynold’s photographs are also artful, playful, carefully constructed images within which he wishes to question the traditions of the medium and challenge conventional ways of seeing. "You've got to get past the obvious beauty…otherwise it's just chocolate box.  To make a beautiful image is still my aim, but a beauty that lasts presents a fresh view - this surely is photography's strength - to re-view, to show again." (Patrick Reynolds, 2003).

There is always a blending of paradoxes in Reynolds photographs. He plays with dualities and conventions: what is considered beautiful and what ugly; the impossibility of truthfulness in photography and the truly artful; nature and the manmade; commerce and high art; the feminine and the masculine; abstraction and figuration. His aim is to create a level of synergy by combining these dualities, creating works, which are neither one thing nor another, but something of both.

Reynolds has a preference for working outside rather than in a studio set-up. He has made extensive use of multiple light sources: flashguns, car headlights, natural light from firelight, the moon and stars.  He has also used hand-held time exposures, setting up vibrations in the image and has used toy cameras to produce selenium toned silver gelatine prints of exceptional quality.

The work of Patrick Reynolds is held in a number of collections and public institutes throughout the country including the Wallace Collection, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery and the Waikato Museum.