World Press Photo & Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition
Two World-Class Exhibitions. One Extraordinary Experience.
For 15 years the World Press Photo Exhibition has called Auckland home. Now, for the first time, these two world-class documentary platforms have joined forces and come together under one roof.
The World Press Photo Exhibition, is one of the most respected showcases of photojournalism on the planet, will present the work of 42 awards photographers selected from over 57,000 entries across 142 countries. Alongside it, the Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition invites you to to step beyond the photograph and inside the story, through virtual reality, interactive installation and sensory driven experiences. Together they create a journey from seeing to feeling, from bearing witness to becoming part of the story.
Immersive Projects
Twelve works. Five New Zealand world premieres. Seven international award-winners. Across five thematic stages: Witness, Presence, Attention, Resonance, and Dreams, these projects move through climate and loss, memory and migration, dementia and depression, ritual and the strange weather of our digital lives. From underwater caves to flooded living rooms, from a collapsing internet to a pianist’s fading mind. Step in. Be changed.
Plan Your Visit
Dates, Times & Location:
24 June – 12 July 2026 | 10am – 8pm | Smith & Caughey’s, Queen Street, Auckland CBD – a venue many of you know and love!
Ticket
This is a ticketed event. A single ticket grants a full day pass giving you unlimited access to both the World Press Photo and the Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition on your chosen day. Concession and Doc Edge Member pricing applies.
Witness ⇌ Feeling
The boundary where attention becomes empathy. The projects place audiences inside other lives – a flooded home, a remembered kitchen, a forest that no longer stands. They ask not just for understanding, but for the willingness to be moved.
The World Came Flooding In · Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles · Australia
Desiderium: What Stood Here · Ellie Adams · Aotearoa New Zealand
Less than 5gr of Saffron · Négar Motevalymeidanshah · France
Presence ⇌ Participation
The audience is invited to stop watching and start belonging. Bodies enter the work, light finds them, gestures become part of the Exhibitions’ evolving record. Here, presence is not passive. It leaves a mark on what comes next.
Lumina · Serena Stevenson & DJ Lisa Greenfield · Aotearoa New Zealand
When Words are Not Enough · Studio Auspicious · Aotearoa New Zealand
Attention ⇌ Action
Where looking carries consequence. A child’s gaze keeps a fragile world alive, 12,000 years of human and planetary data resolve into sound. These two projects make attention itself the instrument as a call to action.
Poems of Life · De Chuen Wu · Taiwan
Anthropocene in C Major · Jamie Perera · United Kingdom
Resonance ⇌ Healing
Audiences are invited to move through human perseverance across landscapes of memory, loss, and quiet ceremony until what was carried alone is briefly carried together.
Mirage · Naima Karim · Bangladesh / Netherlands
A Long Goodbye · Kate Voet & Victor Maes · Belgium / Luxembourg / Netherlands
Music and the Immersive Mystical Experience · Michael Sutherland & Isabel Corfiatis · Aotearoa New Zealand
Dreams ⇌ Transformation
Live ritual, collective movement, and acts of cultural reimagining push past the present toward what might come next. Not escape, but transformation, imagining new states with full knowledge of what is broken.
Between Life and Death · Juan Nicolas Urquiza · Aotearoa New Zealand / Argentina
BrainRot Revolution · Mike Wozniewski & Brett Gaylor · Canada