AMBER-JAYNE BAIN
Amber-Jayne Bain is a photographer based in Te Whanganui a Tara, with commercial and fine-art practices currently battling for dominance. Newly minted with a Master of Fine Arts degree, she has been immersed in the world of moving-image art installation, exploring intermedial methods to discuss the plurality of memory, female colonial settler experience, and the repetitive character of domestic labour.
In her capacity as a commercial photographer, Amber-Jayne works with clients to realise an array of brand campaigns and editorial briefs, photographing people and activity with a mixture of preconsidered control and in-the-moment responsiveness. She is known for her particular appreciation and crafting of light, which is something core to her obsession with photography. Location and studio work are comfortable companions, equally providing the stage for her playful, technical and consistent aesthetic to reside.
Underpinning all of Amber-Jayne’s work is a determination to reveal gentle truths, and practice generosity, with clients, subjects, and with her audience. Perhaps that’s why many of her pictures nurture light in the darkness, and collisions of soft and sharp, aligning with her values, to lift ordinary people and places out of obscurity.