Gavin Hipkins: The Habitat | 2000

Published 2000 by ARTSPACE and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
22 pages
209 x 149mm, softcover, black and white illustrations
With an essay by Paul Walker.
Designed by Jacinda Torrence/Verso
ISBN 0-9582103-6-5

This exhibition catalogue was published in association with the exhibition The Habitat, 2000. 

'Hipkins' images are deserted, as professional architectural photographs are supposed to be. But unlike them, Hipkins' pictures betray a history of occupancy and use. While in somes of Hipkins' images minor elements supposed to sink into the background are now palpably there, in others the visually assertive aspects of architecture have been downplayed. Grand set pieces of campus building, designed to project their formal presence, are obliterated by over or underexposure, their formal clarity lost in a photographic haze.

— Rough Poetry by Paul Walker