Kevin Capon
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1959
Doris Lusk - Painter
- 1985
- Photograph
- Presented by the Friends of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1988
- 300 x 235mm
- 88/197
Tags: artists (visual artists), close-up views, monochrome, painters (artists), people (agents), portraits, spectacles (eyeglasses), women (female humans)
In the early 1980s Kevin Capon travelled New Zealand searching out interesting people to photograph. He met a wide range of personalities, from painter Colin McCahon, to architect Sir Miles Warren, Maori activist Dame Whina Cooper, Canterbury artist Doris Lusk and Maori film and documentary maker Merata Mita. Capon gave his subjects very little direction. Setting up a large format camera and lighting, he gave them the freedom to move up and confront the camera, creating a meeting between humanity and technology. The resulting photographs are honest and raw moments in time, every imperfection and pore of skin made visible. Kevin Capon studied at Wellington Polytechnic in the late 1970s and since then he has worked as a freelance commercial photographer, has taught at the Wellington Polytechnic and exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand. He has received numerous grants and awards, enabling him to travel to Europe and America. He currently lives and works in North Taranaki.