NZ Visual Diary - entry 308

night - Wynyard Crossing Bridge

More than a decade ago, I stumbled upon the work of an extraordinarily gifted architectural photographer. Sharon Tenenbaum trained as a civil engineering and for more than twenty years she worked in the specialised field of bridge civil engineering, a career she ended when she realised that she was enjoying the artistic endeavour of photographing bridges more than the engineering work of helping to design them.

I followed her career as a photographer as her reputation matured with each new international accolade she garnered. Tenenbaum also taught fine arts classes in photography at a college in her adopted home of Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada); and it was during the succession of COVID lockdowns, when course work was relegated to online delivery, that I had the good fortune of enrolling in her course on fine art photography.

I can confidently state I would not have visualised today’s image of the Wynyard Crossing Bridge, photographed at night some months ago, had I not had the pleasure and benefit of her tutelage.