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Artstation’s latest exhibition Small Histories, which features in the Auckland Festival of Photography 2012, opens on Tuesday 5 June. Featuring artists, Caryline Boreham, Andrea Low, Faye Norman and Richard Orjis. In this photographic exhibition, small and personal histories are given the same treatment as grand historical events. The exhibition looks at how photography not only represents important narratives but also the overlooked, the hardly noticed and the archived - capturing the history of the everyday. Richard Orjis explores the notion of small histories through the documentation of flowers at a cousin’s wedding. “The arrangements were gathered from local sites in Christchurch that had been abandoned after the earthquakes. The project highlights moments of change in our lives - contrasting a family event in the aftermath of a national disaster, “ says the artist. Caryline Boreham has had a long-lasting fascination with the hidden and the overlooked. On a medium format camera, Boreham treats these moments such as the drying out of a tent after a camping trip as if they were an important event to be recorded. In series of new works titled Supertitle, Andrea Low uses a collection of personal wartime photographs. “Supertitle explores the ways in which the cultural narratives that the images exist within are exceeded by biography,” says the artist. Faye Norman revisits footage from old family movies as a powerful method of sharing stories between generations. Small Histories features in the ‘Festival Tuesday Circuit’ on opening night Tuesday 5 June 6-9pm, linking exhibitions across central Auckland. Visit www.photographyfestival.org.nz for the full festival programme.