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      • My Relationship With The Old Masters, review. Ian Wedde. 1986
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        • Essay. Ian Wedde. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
        • Essay. Damian Skinner. New Zealand Photographs.
        • Review. Peter Ireland. S'kite
        • Review. Peter Ireland. New Zealand Listener
        • Review. Abby Cunnane. Lumiere.net.nz
        • Review. The Landfall Review On Line. David Eggleton
        • Essay. Greg O'Brien. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
      • Essay. Greg O'Brien. Where I Find Myself
      • Aaron Lister. Art New Zealand. Springbok Tour Book. >
        • springbok tour book. 1 contact sheet
      • certain materialities. Damian Skinner. 2017
      • the empire strikes back.Peter Ireland 2017
      • Everything. 2019-2021 >
        • Lucien Rizos: Processing Power. Robert Leonard 2022
        • Secret life of Gerald.Eva Corlett.Guardian.
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Picture

Musicians At Work. New Zealand  Film Archive. 2010

  As shown at NZ Film Archives May 2010
In celebration of New Zealand Music Month the Film Archive mediagallery presents Musicians at Work; video portraits of buskers by Lucien Rizos in the TV Lounge. 
Filmed on the side of the road and in alleyways, Musicians at Work captures a dozen street musicians looking to earn a dollar from passing pedestrians around New Zealand. 
Some of the performers in Musicians at Work ply their trade with the confidence and skill of virtuosos, while others are hesitant and unsure of themselves. The youngest are two pre-teen guitarists on 
Auckland’s Queen St, who play heavy metal covers. An older man in Dunedin sits beside his mobility scooter and performs classic folk tunes on violin. A flamenco guitarist launches into an impassioned and accomplished solo performance whilst sitting in front of a bank. 
Rizos’ portraits capture not only the musicians but the aura they generate; a teenage drummer performs a furious solo while his teenage friends look on, sharing a cigarette. Some passers-by stop to listen, to give money, or to express their thanks and delight. Others sit nearby and pretend not to notice, perhaps to avoid paying.

Performances by: 
​Piano Accordion Queen Street, Auckland
Guitar Queen Street, Auckland
Drum Kits Manners Mall, Wellington
Electric Guitar and Bass Queen Street, Auckland
Er Hu Lambton Quay, Wellington
Guitar/Vocal Manners Mall, Wellington
Guitar Queen Street, Auckland
Drum Kit Queen Street, Auckland
Violin Lane off George Street, Dunedin
Violin George Street, Dunedin
Guitar/Vocal Queen Street, Auckland
DVD video portraits of buskers. 56 minutes.

more buskers

Andy Blue. Queen Street. Auckland.

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  • home
    • work >
      • photography, documentary style projects >
        • early work. pre 1977
        • Romanian Photos 1977-1978
        • A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... 1979-1982 >
          • A Man...some contact sheets
          • some rejects from A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... 1979-1982
        • Traffic Lights 1981 >
          • some contact sheets
        • McDonald's Corner 1983 >
          • some contact sheets 1983
        • 5 minutes on street corner. Whanganui
        • LAST PHOTOS 1984
        • post last photos 1984-1986
        • telephoto from car 2002
        • unposed portraits 2014-15 >
          • more Unposed Portraits
        • memories 2016
        • Marble Art Ltd. 2017 >
          • exhibition marble art ltd exhib photos
        • remuera 2018
        • Everything. 2019-2021 >
          • A Man Of His Time Exhibition 2020
          • Lucien Rizos .Everything. exhibition.2022
      • photography related projects >
        • ANZAC day 1984
        • Blue skies. Green grass. 1984-86
        • searching for... 1984-1986
        • Silver Lining 1988
        • family album 1989
        • My Relationship with... >
          • My Relationship With Cartier Bresson 1986-1992
          • My Relationship With The Old Masters 1986
        • New Work Studio 1995
        • Analogies 2000-2001
        • My Reality The Camera 2002
        • fringes and backgrounds 2002
        • P O V 2015
      • bits and pieces (photography) in a documentary style. 2015- >
        • people from a distance
        • rural homes from a moving bus
        • random, unconnected photographs.
      • movies >
        • drive-by. pittsburgh 2005
        • to and fro. 2006 spin. 2006
        • Hi Mary... 2007
        • glide 2008
        • from the car. circa 2009-
        • from the bus. circa 2009-
        • musicians at work. 2010
        • Buskers, various. 2009-2010
        • GDBY PK P. 2012
        • reverberation 2012
        • around the perimeter 2016
        • Where's Wally? 2019
      • Rubbings. 1998-1999 >
        • rubbings. literal
        • rubbings. non literal.
    • text >
      • My Relationship With The Old Masters, review. Ian Wedde. 1986
      • A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... >
        • Essay. Ian Wedde. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
        • Essay. Damian Skinner. New Zealand Photographs.
        • Review. Peter Ireland. S'kite
        • Review. Peter Ireland. New Zealand Listener
        • Review. Abby Cunnane. Lumiere.net.nz
        • Review. The Landfall Review On Line. David Eggleton
        • Essay. Greg O'Brien. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
      • Essay. Greg O'Brien. Where I Find Myself
      • Aaron Lister. Art New Zealand. Springbok Tour Book. >
        • springbok tour book. 1 contact sheet
      • certain materialities. Damian Skinner. 2017
      • the empire strikes back.Peter Ireland 2017
      • Everything. 2019-2021 >
        • Lucien Rizos: Processing Power. Robert Leonard 2022
        • Secret life of Gerald.Eva Corlett.Guardian.
    • information >
      • biography and chronology
    • CONTACT
    • publications, books