Biography

Fraser Crichton (he/him) is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based researcher and documentary photographer with a Masters in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Distinction) from the University of Arts London. His research-based practise incorporates investigative journalism, data-visualisation, video and still photography. His work focuses broadly on the power of the state and the contradiction between the State’s promise of human rights and the reality of individuals seeking rights.

Projects

Collaborative Projects

  • Home Ground - Home Ground creates space for women in the justice system to pause, nurture hope, activate social change and create better lives for themselves and future generations. On a Home Ground project, artists (inside and outside of prison) make creative works using dance, performance, photography, writing, painting and music to address the issues women and whānau face in the justice system.

  • UnWar Project - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 2018 – June 2018) - The Un-war space was a collective multidisciplinary research project aiming to explore the spatial practices and representations made by citizens who were and are still engaged in the processes of undoing war, both spatially and culturally, in contemporary war and post-war landscapes. The Un-War space conducted research into the experience of existence in the wartime and post-war city of Sarajevo as a case study of how citizens interact with the environment around them in times of conflict and in post-conflict arenas. As a contribution to this research LCC School of Media and Design staff conducted a collaborative laboratory project in co-operation with the Architecture and the Built Environment Department of Delft University and the Sarajevo School of Architecture.

  • Faces Behind the Voices - with the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective.

Exhibitions

Writing

Education

[cover image: US Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone 104 footage, 30 May 2020 Minneapolis]