Get a date with Wayne
Wayne Hosie’s a dating man.
He’s put together a collection of photographs from throughout the city, after being inspired to do the two-and-a-half year project during his Absolutely Positively Doors poster montage of photographs in the 90s. He started pondering how he’d fill in the gaps of all the numbers he saw on the doors.
“1900, 1901, 1902 and so on...all the way to 1945. It was my mission to fill every single hole,” says Hosie, who was a picture framer at Art’s Ok for 15 years.
“It took me two-and-a-half years to find a 1936 – it was the end of the depression, of course. There wasn’t much building going on.”
But then he found two, oddly, within three weeks of each other. He’s got photos of 18 drainpipes around the city – and asked several homeowners to hang out their windows to take them - photos of the restored Supreme Court building built in 1879, and hung out at truck loading zones so he can jump on top of them to get the best shot. But the most interesting assignment he’s taken on is the Berry and Co. Photographers building in Cuba Mall, which is now Peter McLeavy’s Gallery, fitting given that he’s a photographer.
He’s had three publishers who are interested in the concept of producing a coffee table book of the photos alongside building costings, who built them, and what was going on in the world at the time. The research is punishing.
“My brain is filled with information. But I’m really enjoying it.”
Wayne Hosie’s photographs, Michael Fowler Gallery, Tinakori Road, to mid December.
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