Kezia Barnett

Photography

About

Creating unique & cinematic worlds for over twenty years KEZIA has shot all over the world. A curious eye, keen imagination and cinematic storytelling adds a certain magic to her films.

KEZIA has an eye for detail and loves conceptual riffing, solving a technical challenge, creating delicious visuals, adding a dash of choreography and developing ideas and narratives.

She has won numerous awards including: Golds at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, D&AD, The One Show and AWARD, and been a Cannes Lions Finalist. KEZIA’s most recent short, ‘Nurse Me’, screened at many international festivals, including BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica in the UK and OSCAR accredited HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood. The film has been acquired by Rialto Channel, Air New Zealand and Shorts International.

Originally from seaside Devonport, New Zealand, KEZIA holds a degree from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University.

Collections

Fairytale Dreams by KEZIAI

Evolving AI 'Fairytale Dreams' inspired by Web3. 1/1 NFTs. Minting in batches. Like a film, you meet the characters as they turn up, discover their stories as they are told. Who's going to show up next? What's going to happen...'Bubblegum Queen' inspired by trait factions in the Aipes NFT community. 'Flying Bed' inspired by KEZIAI's experience with chronic illness. 'Ethereum Forest': where Ethereum Trees grow and Ethereum Fairies live.
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The Kezia Library: Daily Photos since 1997

‘Daily Photos’ is a collection of photographs of Kezia Barnett taken every day since 1997. To celebrate the project’s 25th Birthday Kezia will release her very first Daily Photo (1 February 1997) as an NFT edition of 25. Then randomly selected images from the collection will be released. See thekezialibrary.com, IG@thekezialibrary.Before digital cameras, social media, widespread use of internet or cellphones, Kezia began taking daily photos of where she is, who she is with, what she is doing. Proto-selfies. Started in Kezia’s last year of Elam Art School, in an analogue age, the project documents: evolving zeitgeist, fashion, technology and changing ideas of self portrait. The first 10 years were taken on 35 mm film, subsequently digital. As far as we know this is the longest running Daily Photo Self Portrait project – in a world now inundated with ‘selfies’. You could call it endurance art. Kezia still takes Daily Photos and is currently excavating this sizeable collection.
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Spontaneous and documentary in nature, The Kezia Arcade is a collection of photographs of people, places and details. The finished images are stylised and cinematic. An ongoing collection of 1/1's.
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