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Photographer Anaïs Chaine
Diversity Festival at the Vodafone Event Center
Uncategorized / 0 Comment / September 27, 2015

I had the opportunity to photograph the Diversity festival at the Vodafone Event Centre.

This beautiful and colourful event gathers about 400 children from schools around Auckland. They get the chance to train all year long with amazing teachers and music industry professionals, to perform amazing chorals at the end of August.

They sang and performed beautiful dances from varied cultures: Samoan, Maori, Indian, Chinese and many more. A few children had the opportunity to express their talent and gave the crowd amazing solos. What a great event to document!

I captured only intimate shots and close ups for this event, which was an interesting experience for me as a photographer. Let me know what you think!

A little girl with a white tee-shirt smiling among her blurred classmates
In the public a group of girls from the green team watching the show
Portrait of a girl in a choral
Low-angle shot of a little girl singing in a choral from the green team
Close-up of the orange team singing Vodafone Event Centre Auckland
The representative of their cultures waving their flags Vodafone Event Centre in Auckland
Half-cropped of a student singing and dancing traditional pacific island dance
student singing and dancing samoan dance
Half-cropped of a student singing and dancing and clapping in her hand wearing traditional pacific island clothes
A little girl watching the show
With a big flowers necklace a little boy singing proudly his hands folded
A boy singing intensely at the Vodafone Event Centre in the stage
Maori students singing and dancing synchronized traditional maori dance
A little maori boy dancing his traditional dance intensely Vodafone Event Centre
A little maori boy dancing with his classmates
A guitarist accompanying the traditional dance behind the students
Maori boys dancing their traditional dance intensely
One of the boys dancing and sticking out his tongue Vodafone Event Centre
Back of the conductor guiding in front of the blurred chorals at the Vodafone Event Centre
The chorals following the blurred conductor
One of the teacher and choral conductor singing hands in the air
One of the teachers singing and guiding her students
Close-up of the hands of a dancer : detail shot
The MC doing his speech
Half-cropped of the dancers hands folding
Close-up of young girls singing and clapping hands Vodafone Event Centre
A boy dancing hands in the air traditional pacific island dance
Close-up of girls dancing seating on the floor with purple dress
A young girl dancing proudly her traditional dance at the Vodafone Event Centre
A young girl dancing proudly her traditional pacific island dance
A young girl dancing proudly her traditional Fiji dance
Close-up of dancers' feet with bracelet around her ankles
The MC doing his speech at the Vodafone Event Center for the diversity Festival
A girl dancing gracefully with a yellow fan Vodafone Event Centre
A girl dancing gracefully with a yellow fan traditional chinese dance
Dressed with traditional clothes indian girls dancing their traditional dance
Dressed with traditional clothes indian girls dancing their traditional dance Vodafone Event Centre
A young girl playing a traditional ukulele of Pacific Islands
Dressed with traditional clothes girls dancing their traditional idian dance




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