Cool Little Workshop in a Cool Little Town By Karen Lawton. Photos by Judy Stokes APSNZ
Hokitika is a South Island, West Coast town, known for its iconic driftwood beach sign and its catchy marketing phrase, a “Cool Little Town”. Some might say Hoki is a wee bit off the beaten track. Yet Saturday 15 May 2021 saw eighteen keen PSNZ members finding their way to the end of that track, congregating at the PSNZ Workshop venue. They enjoyed a full day of inspirational education provided by presenter Judy Stokes APSNZ. The workshop was offered to PSNZ members as part of the 2021 Workshop series and was supported by Canon NZ who provided a hard case chock full of very tempting gear for participants to trial. Judy Stokes is an Auckland based photographer, based for many years at Muriwai Beach. She has always been very willing to share her knowledge and skills with others, and this approach epitomised the workshop presented in Hoki. The subject was Creative Photography, supported by another catchy phrase: Intentional Camera Movement or ICM. Judy is first and foremost an artist, and her approach to using the camera and lens as an artist’s tool to ‘paint with your camera’ was challenging and almost confrontational. She wove her way through the names in art history that have inspired her and explained the means by which she drew inspiration from them.
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