Dan Kerins Photography

Dan Kerins Photography Commissioned photography and the written word, specialising in ill-planned and under-funded excursion It can horrify and it can inspire awe.

Self-taught from a collection of dog-eared and sub-adequate film and digital cameras, Dan Kerins has an unashamedly offbeat style and eclectic body of work, which has featured in exhibitions in the UK, New Zealand, and USA. He is regularly published online and in hard print, commissioned by commercial entities and private clients.

“If you a see a tea pot on a table it’s a tea pot.If you see a tea

pot on a plinth in an art gallery, it’s a ceramic art installation. For me that’s how photography works; the teapot is the world and the plinth is the four straight edges that the camera puts around it. How and what a photographer chooses to put in-between those four edges is no small calculation. There is no right or wrong to it, although each image does have a resonance. And that resonance can be a powerful thing - it can take you somewhere, it can prove a thing and disprove another, it can tell story, it can capture an abstract glimmer of life, it can inform and it can confuse, it can be honest and it can lie. What a thing to do with your day.”

SPIRITS OF SALTS opening this Thursday and running for six weeks is a photo documentary exhibition featuring a series o...
03/03/2024

SPIRITS OF SALTS opening this Thursday and running for six weeks is a photo documentary exhibition featuring a series of 21 framed images and a selection of artefacts from the the collections of local lifelong natural historian and beachcomber Bev Elliot . The exhibition is free for Kaikōura residents (although I’m sure a wee donation to our outstanding community focused museum would always be appreciated 😉) It’s a highly personal account of Bev’s unique life and I’m very proud of many of these images which have rekindled my love of documentary. Please go have look some time soon.

Huge Thankyou to everyone who came to the opening of ‘Decade in the Shade’ - a great turnout from the Kaikōura Community...
15/09/2023

Huge Thankyou to everyone who came to the opening of ‘Decade in the Shade’ - a great turnout from the Kaikōura Community and beyond. Was an honour to share my work with you all I was blown away with the level of support. Erm…did anyone take any photos of the event? 😂Thanks again to : and all those who helped out in my various hours of need. # dankerinsphotog
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‘A Decade in the Shade’, Photographic Exhibition from 10 years on four walls. Opening from 5 pm 14th September.
13/09/2023

‘A Decade in the Shade’, Photographic Exhibition from 10 years on four walls. Opening from 5 pm 14th September.

A Decade in the Shade, Kaikōura from 5pm tomorrow for six weeks.
13/09/2023

A Decade in the Shade, Kaikōura from 5pm tomorrow for six weeks.

‘ A Decade in Shade’ opening tomorrow evening from 5 pm running for six weeks, wine, nibbles and 10 years on four walls...
13/09/2023

‘ A Decade in Shade’ opening tomorrow evening from 5 pm running for six weeks, wine, nibbles and 10 years on four walls. Thankyou and for design and printing, , and for making it all possible. Look forward to seeing you there. A

‘A Decade in the Shade’ , New photography Exhibition at the Mayfair, 14th of September to the end of October 2023. 10 ...
10/09/2023

‘A Decade in the Shade’ , New photography Exhibition at the Mayfair, 14th of September to the end of October 2023. 10 years on four walls. Been a big a effort by all involved, I’ll be glad to see it finally up on the walls. Opening this Thursday. Huge thankyou for doing at absolutely top job on the design side of things, hence this Awesome poster, bringing professionalism, understanding and a great aesthetic. Massive thanks to the and for helping to host. Also huge thanks to for help with printing. Hopping to see you there.

Quick reminder that tomorrow evening at the Kaikōura museum will be awesome. Especially if you like art,poetry,photograp...
20/06/2023

Quick reminder that tomorrow evening at the Kaikōura museum will be awesome. Especially if you like art,poetry,photography, nibbles and wine.

Back to the Creek, Kaikōura, 2023. The Cyclone swell left after the beast headed back out to the pacific. Since moving t...
20/02/2023

Back to the Creek, Kaikōura, 2023. The Cyclone swell left after the beast headed back out to the pacific. Since moving to the hills Don’t get down to the creek as much as I once did but still like to make the effort once in a while- especially when pacific is blowing up the shoreline. That freak energy of a wild big ocean was palpable that afternoon.

‘ Flashing Downtown’ Kaikōura,Jan 2023. Link in Bio for full shoot. Good to go flashing downtown for a Saturday evenin...
31/01/2023

‘ Flashing Downtown’ Kaikōura,Jan 2023. Link in Bio for full shoot. Good to go flashing downtown for a Saturday evening - a reinvigorating night documenting awesome live music performances from the Effervescent JAGUAR SPECTACULAR’s debut and the release of exceptional second album- Avoca Street. Both bands smashed it. So good to see the excellent facilities being put to great use serving the arts in the community. Both bands are on I implore you to download.

Rockwood station, Windwhistle, Canterbury,NZ 2021. Pretty happy with how his came out- recent feature shoot for NZ Life ...
12/12/2021

Rockwood station, Windwhistle, Canterbury,NZ 2021. Pretty happy with how his came out- recent feature shoot for NZ Life and Leisure’s 100th edition. Always great shooting Rockwood station’s sites and the ever hospitable hosts Ben and Cheryl and their idillic farm and garden.

“Old Dog-New Tricks” Kaikōura, 2016-2020. This is a photo of all the pencils that I’ve lost and subsequently found over ...
09/11/2020

“Old Dog-New Tricks” Kaikōura, 2016-2020. This is a photo of all the pencils that I’ve lost and subsequently found over the last 4 years. No doubt many more have fallen never to be found again. They would turn up lodged in some forgotten pocket, or in the footwell of my van-or rattling around in the washing machine so I started saving them until The day I could say that I passed my carpentry apprenticeship( which I did a few weeks back). It’s been a big transition for me both professionally and personally, it’s also been the most satisfying, affirming, fascinating exhausting and surprisingly insightful of journeys. I really can’t thank luke and .nic and the rest of the Team at LMC building and construction enough. I’m still blown away that they even took on a balding,rambling random Englishman and trained me up under the instruction of the masterful ,talented and ever watchful who somehow managed to coax and drag me across the finish line and to whom I’m ever grateful. Do things you like.

Vignettes of late winter, Kaikōura 2020.
29/09/2020

Vignettes of late winter, Kaikōura 2020.

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