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Selected frames: the studio’s eye across movement, documentary, people and land.

37 frames / 4 sets

/01

Movement

A studio dance production: pigment, shadow and a white cyclorama.

Dancer mid-turn in a burst of red pigment
Movement study / pigment I
Dance company mid-leap on a dark stage
Company / flight
Dancer seated on a white floor cut by diagonal shadows
Movement study / shadow
Dancer in white against a black backdrop
Solo / dark stage
Small dancer on a vast white cyclorama
The cyc / scale
Camera operator filming a dancer, seen from behind
On set / the frame inside the frame
Bare feet on a floor covered in coloured pigment
Pigment floor / aftermath
Dancer in white mid-phrase
Solo / white
Overhead view of a director and dancer on set
On set / direction
/02

Documentary

Streets, parades, kitchens and weather: life as it happens.

Brass band musician playing in the rain during a parade
Brass in the rain
Child wrapped in orange cloth at a festival
Festival / orange
Pasifika dancers in red mid-performance
Festival floor
Salvation Army officer smiling mid-gesture
The bandmaster
Flag bearer at a street parade
Colours / parade
Girl laughing across a café table
Café / warm
Cooks at work in a home kitchen
Kitchen shift
Figure walking through an alley, black and white
Alley / monochrome
Pedestrian passing a long red brick wall
Red wall / street
Low-lit interior corridor
After hours
Mud-covered ute with two figures, black and white
The raptor / monochrome
Storm-damaged shed among flattened trees
After the cyclone
/03

People

Weddings, portraits and the companions in between.

Bride in a feathered cloak looking back through native bush
The cloak / ceremony
Portrait in soft window light
Window light
Couple seated beneath a garden gazebo
The gazebo
Bride holding a bouquet in golden light
Bouquet / gold
Groom suit detail among foliage
The groom / detail
Florist holding a bouquet in golden backlight
Joy Florals / commercial
Child on a hillside at golden hour
Golden hour
Portrait smiling in falling snow
First snow
Woman with her dog on a couch, low light
At home / low light
Dog at the water's edge in golden light
Companion / golden
Kris Singh, director of Singh Studio
The photographer / occasionally in frame
/04

Land & Wild

Aotearoa’s ranges and harbours, with detours across the Tasman.

Braided river running between dark mountain ranges
Braided river
Snow-covered mountain range
The range / winter
Ferry crossing a dark blue harbour at dusk
Harbour crossing
Sheep in a snow-covered paddock
High country / flock
Figure crossing an old stone bridge in dark bush
Stone bridge
Sun setting over a lake and hills
Last light
Kangaroo and joey in bushland
Across the Tasman / roo
Elephant in a green enclosure
Across the Tasman / giant

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