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About dimackey.com

And so it begins ...

For a long time, I have been trying to think of a way to share the places I wander, the people I meet and the things that I see, with those who don't have the same opportunity to hop on board a cheap flight to Rome, catch a train from Milan to Genova, or Rome to Naples, to fly into Istanbul or wander deep into some place in France, Spain, Turkey, Germany or Egypt to spend time in the homes of friends and strangers.

Di Mackey.com emerged from this impulse. I hope you enjoy wandering with me and my Canon EOS 5D Mark II .

The Blog Section is about updates from the road, books read, quotes and extracts found, exhibitions and projects as they unfold, photographs and an almost daily accounting from the life of Di – this expat/immigrant/traveler living in a country not her own, travelling often and sometimes returning home. It will be the bits and pieces ...

Publications and Exhibitions will keep readers up-to-date on publications in which my work appears, as well as exhibition information.

About Di Mackey

I'm a professional photographer, a New Zealander living in Belgium, traveling where the work takes me - Italy, Germany, throughout Belgium, Egypt and Turkey to date.

My photographic style ranges across documentary photography, photo-journalism and into portraiture, with a large cross-section of clients.

Previous clients have included Canwest - Canada's largest media company, the New Zealand Defence Forces and commemoration coverage for both the military and media from Flanders Fields. EuroAce - the European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Enterprise Ireland - a government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the indigenous business sector, Yara International ASA - a leading chemical company, the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels, and Soldier magazine - the Magazine of the British army published for the UK Armed Forces by the Ministry of Defence ... to name a few.

My work has been published in Du magazine, and in a wide variety of international newspapers and magazines, including websites.

I recently spent three months working on location in Berlin as a documentary photographer for ha'atelier, an international Berlin-based platform for philosophy and art. I have worked as their photographer for more than a year and across a range of projects, in this instance providing a photographic documentation of their 18-room exhibition titled TASWIR - Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam, in the Martin Gropius Bau Museum. My work is hanging within the exhibition as an evolving aspect of TASWIR.

My third photography exhibition opens in Messines, Belgium on 12 February 2010 and will run for two weeks. Titled Liminal Spaces - Flanders Fields, I will present photographs that attempt to capture the past in the everyday present of the people who live on the world war one battlegrounds ... the betwixt and between aspect of the people who care for the memory of those who died in the war. You can read of and view my previous exhibitions here on the website.

If you have a project you would like to discuss, feel free to contact me at mackey(dot)di(at)gmail(dot)com. I look forward to hearing from you.