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Breakfast - Roger Donaldson on Photography

Breakfast - Roger Donaldson on Photography
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Breakfast - Roger Donaldson on Photography
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Before Roger Donaldson became a successful Hollywood director he was a keen photographer, and in 2007 he held an exhibition of his work at Lopdell House Gallery in Auckland. In this Breakfast interview with Kay Gregory, Donaldson describes throwing himself into photography as a way to "escape Australia" and the pressure to "get a real job". Eventually he changed mediums and started making films. A large storage facility fire in Auckland in the early 1980s destroyed a large chunk of Donaldson'...

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2007
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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/breakfast-roger-donaldson-on-photography-2007
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lopdell house gallery / 1980s / personal history / te uru / art photography / director / film / fire / storage / america / bank robbery / editing / australia / parents / artistic career / fashion photography / care evolution / exhibition / auckland / loss / family / pressure / career / cameras / story telling / titirangi / black and white film / tāmaki makarau / eighties / monochrome

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