Looking

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Camus Wyatt

Lens-based artist and doctoral candidate in art history, New Zealand Aotearoa.

Through themes of transience and fragility, my work explores how images may illuminate distance in history, memory, and time.

Making

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Books:

  • in some smothering dreams, Rim Books (Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand Aotearoa), 2024 →

    Shortlisted in the Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards 2026

Exhibitions:

  • Time is the longest distance, Courtenay Place Park Light Boxes, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2020-2021

  • a thin streak of light, Photospace, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2019

  • Pouwhenua, 30Upstairs, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2016

  • Ephemeral Joys, Photospace, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2013

  • Street Light, 2008-2010, Photospace, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2011

Reading

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Selected press:

  • It is not always possible to see things clearly. Lissa Mitchell, PhotoForum, 2024 →

  • Photography Now: Time is the Longest Distance Between Two Places, Matilda Fraser, Art New Zealand, no. 178, Winter 2021

  • Wellington Observed: A Photographic Portfolio by Camus Wyatt, Hamish Clayton, Art New Zealand, no. 145, Autumn 2013