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Rudyard Yap
Rudyard Yap Expat
New Yorker, Filipino-American studied at the International Centre for
Photography (ICP) in New York City. Also
a stint at the Centre for Photography in Woodstock, upstate New York.
On shifting to New Zealand, he discovered great photography work
already done on New Zealand landscapes. He decided to stick to the
challenge of finding figure models willing to pose against this unique
background, or with some kiwi reference. Rudyard prefers to use an old-fashioned all manual Hasselblad medium format camera. After his first inclusion in a gallery show: “The Pictures We Would Not Hang”, at dot fiftyone gallery in Miami, Florida, he liked the impact of very large printing, and he now chooses only large-sized prints to exhibit. He is knowledgeable in the printing process and has discovered a photographer in Palmerston North, New Zealand, who has a tiny darkroom in a shed behind his garage; however Rudyard finds the New Zealand weather not too ideal for largesized-printing in a shed. Rudyard’s
other passion is architecture photography: both interiors and exteriors.
He studied shooting interiors under Billy Cunningham, one of
American Architectural Digest’s official photographers. Most of the
architectural photographs Rudyard does are of his travels-- so far he has
done series of pictures on France (especially Paris), Angkor Wat in
Cambodia, Copenhagen, old houses in Oslo, Vizcaya in Miami, Florida, La
Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires, the Christ Redeemer statue in Rio de
Janeiro, local architecture of New Zealand, temples in Seoul, and of
various stuff in the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. He also collects photographs by other artists, and these can
be viewed at his lovely home at 32 Manapouri Crescent, Palmerston North.
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