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The Gallery is New Zealand’s only venue for this international touring exhibition of football images from the world’s finest photography agency, Magnum. Planet Football’s world tour finishes in New Zealand! Showing exclusively at the Gallery, this exhibition of football images from the world's finest photography agency, Magnum, has toured 80 countries around the globe!

Football is the world’s most popular sport – it is played by hundreds of millions and watched by billions of people around the world. It has been described as the people’s sport because it speaks a universal language. All around the world, the game of football transcends the barriers of culture, religion, social standing and politics. Timed to coincide with the FIFA World Cup 2006, this exhibition of photographs reveals how football can build bridges around the world. From mosque courtyards to middle-class English gardens, football stadiums and refugee camps, Planet Football is a photographic exhibition that celebrates the world of football - great moments on and off the soccer field.

This exhibition has been created by the Goethe-Institut in Germany in conjunction with the world renowned photography agency Magnum Photos. It includes works by such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Abbas, Chris Steele-Perkins, Luc Delahaye, Josef Koudelka, Brice Gilden, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr and Marc Ribound, and toured eighty countries around the world before coming to New Zealand.

An exhibition by Goethe-Institut, conceived in cooperation with MAGNUM PHOTOS.