Richard Brimer picked up his first camera as a teenager. Unenthused by school, at fifteen he apprenticed to a commercial photographer for whom his father worked as an accountant, where he focused on darkroom work and aerial photography. Drawn to people, Brimer worked for a portrait photographer before branching out on his own. He has had a successful freelance career spanning the past forty years.

Florence Charvin has a passion for photography, training her expert lens on just the right balance of dark and light to capture imagery that speaks to the viewer. Originally from France she made Hawke’s Bay her home at the turn of the century, making her by now an almost local.

V Hoy is a multidisciplinary artist who consciously defies definition. She combines technical skill with a depth of thought and feeling, understanding and articulation that permeates all she creates across a multitude of media. From her early study of fashion design, to her tattoo apprenticeship, to her Bachelor of Creative Practice at EIT’s IDEAschool, where she learned the wizardry of digital collage, building on her already significant painting and photography skills, V Hoy has immersed herself in the arts, giving all of herself to her many varied creative projects.