bodies of work.
to trace a path through the dark, 2024
a palmful of water, 2024
digging a shallow grave to place my pain, so our wounds can learn to sing in harmony, 2023
offerings from below, 2023
if I was to pry open my wounds, would you hear them weep?, 2023
reach into the soil: darkroom contact prints, 2022
womb, 2022
reach into the soil: settler colonial trauma and reciprocity with the land, 2022
i sit and sew: my heart aches with desire, 2022
two feet rooted in the ground, 2022
SACRED, 2021
the spiralling aisle, 2021
hands: a photobook, 2021
māhina's breath, 2021
an ode; to the love and the light
untitled (introduced species), 2021
the pure land, 2021
tenderness, 2020
cycle of flowers, 2020
the transaction of energy, 2020
to let the light in, 2020
my substack: learning to see in the dark
about me
Belinda Whitta is a photographic artist, with a sustainable and alternative analog practice.
Frequently working within the intersectionality of feminisms, representation of land and body, and our contextual settler colonial histories and rituals.
Belinda facilitates a hands-on, process-based practice that feels out new ways to communicate the invisibilities or un-seen and un-spoken elements within our relationships, histories, representations and spaces.
Using sustainable photographic processes aids her in maintaining a continuous reciprocal relationship with the landscape, thinking of the land not as an object but an entity.
In her current research and practice for the Masters of Fine Arts degree at Whiti o Rehua Massey University, Belinda is exploring the edges of photographic processes, empowering space in the installation process to reiterate the works themes of vulnerability… read more.
the handmade darkroom: Te Whanganui-a-Tara Sustainable Photography Collective
the handmade darkroom: Te Whanganui-a-Tara Sustainable Photography Collective
The Handmade Darkroom was co-founded by Samson Dell and Belinda Whitta in February 2023, when the collective was publicly launched to facilitate a series of workshops. They have since spoken on panels, facilitated artist talks, and created and facilitated many workshops, including their debut workshops for the Susurrations exhibition, a cyanotype demonstration for Newtown Fest 2023 and Te Papa’s After Dark in March 2024, and their recent winter workshops in June/July of 2024.
Since 2023, The Handmade Darkroom have regularly collaborated with Women in Photography NZ & AU to facilitate monthly meet-ups for their local photographic community. Together with their community they formed a collaborative photobook made up of submissions from all over the motu, and beyond. The outcome, whispering bird song, will be available at Photobook NZ photobook fair in August of 2024.
The collective now facilitates a Patreon account, bringing monthly content to their supporters in return for financial support that enables the sustainability of the collective and the facilitators time and capacity to create new and meaningful content each month.
the point and shoot diaries.
