{"id":38960,"date":"2021-11-16T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/16\/singular-vision-new-film-spotlights-queer-new-zealand-photographer-who-broke-the-mould"},"modified":"2021-11-16T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:00:10","slug":"singular-vision-new-film-spotlights-queer-new-zealand-photographer-who-broke-the-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38960","title":{"rendered":"Singular vision: New film spotlights queer New Zealand photographer who broke the mould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When she started out 50 years ago, Fiona Clark\u2019s work was met with rejection. Now she\u2019s the subject of an admiring documentary<\/p>\n<p>Whether documenting the crackling raw energy of Auckland\u2019s fledgling punk rock scene in the 1970s or the hedonistic glamour of Karangahape Road\u2019s queer culture, renowned New Zealand photographer Fiona Clark\u2019s vibrant photos evocatively capture people and personalities in subcultures many people wouldn\u2019t even know existed.<\/p>\n<p>Seen as too confronting and radical by the New Zealand art world in the 1970s, Clark\u2019s work was met with resistance from major art dealers who told her \u201cwe\u2019re not handling your work\u201d, and some of her images mysteriously disappeared from the Auckland art gallery. But Clark has never let this distract her from her singular vision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/16\/singular-vision-new-film-spotlights-queer-new-zealand-photographer-who-broke-the-mould\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she started out 50 years ago, Fiona Clark\u2019s work was met with rejection. Now she\u2019s the subject of an admiring documentaryWhether documenting the crackling raw energy of Auckland\u2019s fledgling punk rock scene in the 1970s or the hedonistic glamour of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,69,56,92,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-film","category-new-zealand","category-photography","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions\/38961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}