Amber Griffin Photography

2024 Grand Champion Asia Pacific Photography Awards
2023 NZ Professional Photographer of the Year NZIPP Iris Awards

Dancing digitally; capturing the essence of grace, energy and artistry...

AMBER GRIFFIN

Dancing digitally; capturing the essence of grace, energy and artistry...

AMBER GRIFFIN

“When you grow up learning to dance competitively, the discipline, physical power and mindset required to achieve a level of artistry that can be appreciated by a discerning audience makes you very aware,” says award-winning photographer, Amber Griffin.

Amber applies her personal dance awareness with meticulous sensitivity to craft vividly inspiring photographic artworks that are receiving repeated international recognition.

Creating strikingly beautiful imagery has always been her ambition. Amber loves to collaborate with professional dancers and other artists, and has successfully developed her own photographic niche by elevating both their vision and her own, through shared association and experimentation. Line, light and movement are her primary focus when photographing dance, and Amber's sensitivity to balancing these three crucial elements is what defines her award-winning style.

Amber’s style has developed through years of studio-based dance portraiture for both professional and developing dancers; often shooting portfolio work for pre-professional dancers as well as a multitude of performance-based dance events throughout New Zealand.

After winning the 2015 WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC CUP Gold Medal for Commercial Photography in Montpellier, France, (also the Highest Scoring Print that year), Amber held her first solo fine art exhibitions in Wellington and Auckland. In 2016, she was named both Commercial Photographer of the Year and Wellington Regional Photographer of the Year at the NZIPP Iris Awards.

Amber was again awarded in the Commercial Category of the 2017 World Photographic Cup in Yokohama, Japan, this time with the Silver Medal for her 'Alayna Rosé' image.

While the awards and creative outlet of holding exhibitions are wonderful, Amber also enjoys working with a variety of other long-term commercial and corporate clients.

“I believe in measuring photographic success by my clients’ satisfaction. We’re all only ever as good as the last job we’ve undertaken, so I strive to approach every new challenge with the ambition that it will become my best work yet,” says Amber.

ALAYNA ROSÉ

The beauty of dance is that it enables you to both find yourself and lose yourself at the same time. Now, Alayna Rosé is ready to enhance the beauty of your home with the limited-time release of this 2016 Gold Awarded, print edition.

Sales have now opened and demand is high. This never to be repeated edition will be available to purchase for a total of just six weeks until midnight, 31 October.

Printed on archival cotton rag, a fine art paper with a velvety matt finish, this edition will not be numbered but instead individually signed by Amber and emboss-sealed with her stamp of authenticity. Sized at a generous 25 inches wide x 20 inches high, you can acquire your own print of this award-winning image for just $450 NZD including free delivery, anywhere in the world (NZ customers: GST is included).

This beautifully feminine artwork of one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed ballerinas, Alayna Ng, will provide a vivid sense of inspiration, energy and grace to your home for generations to come.

Alayna Rosé was produced with the support of one of New Zealand’s most awarded and respected wineries, Jackson Estate. Inspired by the vineyard’s newly released and extremely limited edition 2016 Pinot Rosé, professional ballerina Alayna Ng encompasses the wine’s elegance, concentration and balance, all held together with the purity and the delightfully lifted spirit of a prima ballerina.

Recognised by the NZIPP Iris Awards’ judges, the artwork was awarded a Gold with Distinction and Amber was named the 2016 NZIPP Commercial Photographer of the Year.

Remember, this fine art paper edition is only available until 31 October 2016 and will never be repeated. If you love this exquisite collaboration of elite dance, fine wine and award-winning art, your opportunity is now.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Exploring the beauty and majesty of movement through a diverse selection of contemporary photographic processes is Amber’s quest in her first collection of works. Many images use a stop-action technique that capture the pinnacle of the dancer’s movement with beautiful clarity. Others explore the full breadth of movement revealed by the dancer through an artful mix of long exposure with high speed flash. Amber broadens this technique through a fine post-production process that lift subjects into new and ethereal realms.

“Her intimate understanding of the art of dance, and her relationships with the people who tread these boards, makes for a powerful and collaborative pas de deux between the photographer and her subjects” – f11 Magazine

These images were made possible through collaboration with some of New Zealand’s top dance talents including Loughlan Prior, Alayna Ng, Jono Selvadurai, Alice Macann, Sam Wilson and Adriana Harper. By investing in any 1/1 Vintage print from this series, you will be directly supporting the featured dancer as well as the artist.

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