Photonews.org.nz Website Review

Of the seven regions served by the Photo News during its run, we currently make the following available on this site: Over time, with the as*istance of the communities in the various regions served by the Photo News, we hope to make more editions The Logan Publishing Company began at Robert (Bob) Logan’s residence in Gisborne, New Zealand June 1954. Bob’s eldest son John remembers doing the monthly delivery of Gisborne Photo News to dairies and bookshops around town and seeing people eagerly waiting outside for In the first issue Bob said “Our aims and objects are brief. They are, above all else, to interest and entertain our readers with news What the Photo News roving reporters wouldn’t go to probably wasn’t worth knowing about — they went to everything from birthdays, engagements and 21sts, to Boy Scout excursions and mother daughter badminton mornings — nothing was considered irrelevant. They even went to the opening of a fridge when it was gifted to a local children’s home. It started small — a darkroom in his Gisborne home — but at its height, Logan Publishing was printing Photo News editions for nine regions around New Zealand — a total of 60,000 copies a month, or nearly three-quarters of a million every year. Similar magazines for other towns around New Zealand which belonged to his franchise were produced for Whangarei, Tauranga, Rotorua, Taranaki, Wanganui and Nelson. They also printed editions for Waikato, Thames-Paeroa-Matamata and Franklin. As*embling the Photo News was a manual task. Photos were pasted onto a larger piece of paper and the text was created on a typewriter and pasted alongside, before being put onto screens and printed. The flagship edition from Gisborne was printed for 21 years. By that time John Logan says it was no longer viable with more photos being published in newspapers, magazines and with the popularity of television. These days the publication is more important than ever as a representation of a social slice of life and cultural change in