A Brief history of our Publications

In 1967 PSNZ published the first edition of Camera in New Zealand; it was a hard-covered book, intended to be the first of an annual showcase of members’ work. It was printed in Japan and included work mostly in black & white from 106 members. This edition has become a collectors’ item.

Subsequently, from 1971 the Society published a magazine six times a year under the title New Zealand Camera, but due to its high cost of production this was replaced by the bi-monthly newsletter CameraTalk which is still being published today.

Camera 2003

The first New Zealand Camera came out early in 1997 printed in Auckland and comprising 64 pages with a soft cover. The publication included ‘in-house’ PSNZ information. Around 130 members submitted up to two entries and each had a picture in this first book. The publishers described it as a magazine, rather than a book; it was well received by members.

The second New Zealand Camera was dated 1998 and comprised 72 pages. Subsequent issues dated 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 all had 64 pages. The 2001 and 2002 editions included a small number of single-page essays by invited PSNZ members; 1200 copies were printed.

Then in 2003, Camera, a history of the first 50 years of PSNZ written by Beverley Sinclair was produced. This soft-covered book doubled the size of the Society's 'annual' to 128 pages and is an invaluable source of information on PSNZ during its early years and has proven to be a popular history of the Society. In 2011 with stock no longer available, a reprint was published.

In 2003 PSNZ appointed a new team based in Christchurch led by Newell Grenfell FPSNZ to produce a ‘real book’. This was the first of the successful annual ‘case-bound coffee-table books’ that would sell in bookstores throughout the country and be widely used as a gift.

The first hard-cover New Zealand Camera in this format was published in October 2004 with 132 pages, printed in China, and subsequent annual books have increased to 160 pages.

In recent years New Zealand Camera has been successfully produced in Christchurch by an enthusiastic local team, published by Caxton Print and printed in Hong Kong. Its style and format have been very successful and PSNZ members look forward to submitting two images each year and receiving their complimentary copy