Folio boxes, albums, and wall art are all he sells-no digitals! While he prefers to shoot out of doors or in a client’s home, he maintains a studio that showcases the products and types of work that he sells. He also found it to be an easier way to make money and with better hours, too.Ĭarter has built his portrait business around creating legacy products for his clients. weddings are such a big theatre, so you’re sort of like the conductor.” Moving from weddings to portraits was a natural transition for Carter.
As a documentary photographer, you have to be an organizer. You know, when you turn up at a wedding, you have to just keep thinking on your feet. From there, he entered an apprenticeship with a wedding photographer with failing eyesight.Ĭarter says, “I found that to be a great grounding. To stay involved, Carter began photographing the sport. His latest project 'Another World, Portraits from Ōhura', photographed in 2013, was first shown at Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth in 2014, and at the Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford in 2015.In this episode of The Portrait System Podcast, host Nikki Closser speaks with New Zealand native Tony Carter about the evolution of his 30-year career and how shooting weddings, documentary, photography and portraits all naturally evolve from one to another.Ĭarter, who is a judge in The Portrait Masters Awards & Accreditation Competition and has been named New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year seven times, got his start in photography after sustaining a knee injury in motocross dirt bike riding. His first solo exhibition of award winning portraits was shown at the Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford in 2004. A consummate perfectionist, in 2014 alone Carter won two gold, five silver and two bronze photography awards. He was also named the Australian International Photographer of the Year in 2018. In 2010, he was the first New Zealander to be awarded Grand Master of Photography by the NZ Institute of Professional Photography.
Tony has won numerous industry awards and has six times been named New Zealand Professional Photographer of the year (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 20). He now has his own studio at 39 Young Street. On his return to NZ, he trained as a professional portrait photographer with Margaret Bake in New Plymouth from 1991-1995. As a teenager Tony developed a keen interest in photographing motocross racing, and while living in England in 1989-1991 he took an extended night course in Photography at South Devon College.
He grew up in small towns right around Mt Taranaki, and was educated at Stratford High and Taranaki Polytechnic, where he studied business. Tony Carter, was born in Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand in 1967.
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