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Statement

Annette-Karin Richards is a New Zealand artist and writer working across photography, drawn to environmental portraiture, expressionist abstraction, and landscapes. Her practice probes the deep imprints of colonialism—not as distant histories, but as living relationships etched into people and place. She listen to silences, to what has been hidden or erased, working in the thresholds between memory and forgetting, absence and presence, decay and light. Her images emerge from spaces where grief and resilience co-exist—offering not answers, but openings.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

How the Light Gets Out is an interrogation of the female gaze within colonial and patriarchal frameworks. It is a meditation on rupture, not rapture—where women are not symbols but presences, unflinching in their visibility. Set within fractured urban spaces and haunted architectures, the project reveals how light seeps through destruction, how memory lingers in ruins, and how resistance endures across generations.

CV Summary

Annette Karin Richards is a New Zealand photographer and writer with an international practice, having exhibited in Paris, New York, Seoul, and Toronto, with upcoming shows in Venice and Barcelona. Her work explores the intersections of memory, identity, and colonial histories through evocative visual storytelling. Blending environmental portraiture, abstraction, and landscape, her images challenge erasure and illuminate what has been hidden or silenced. Supported by mentors and organisations such as Eyes In Progress, Valerie Fougeirol, Ed Kashi, and The Big Idea, Annette’s practice is rooted in listening—closely, ethically—to marginalised voices and the geographies they inhabit.