| Shaw, Yvonne |
Cover Image: Psychodrama Workshop 3, McCallum, Michelago, NSW, 16/04/23, 12:27:11 pm. (PDF, 2.4 MB) |
Journal 34 December 2025 |
photographs, photography |
Yvonne Shaw is an Auckland-based artist and psychodrama trainee. Her interest in how photographic images of psychodrama might reveal new insights about spontaneity led to a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Between 2021 and 2025 she photographed five psychodrama workshops as part of her research, in warm collaboration with fellow trainees and members of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association. Yvonne is currently in her seventh year of psychodrama training and is an Associate member of AANZPA. |
12 |
2025-12 |
| Brown, Hamish |
Directing Psychodrama on Stage (PDF, 143.4 KB) |
Journal 29 December 2020 |
director, encounter, humanity, love, photography, protagonist, Psychodrama, role |
It is 10 am. I am sitting at the edge of a horse shoe of 8 chairs on the stage of the dilapidated Crystal Palace Theatre in Mt Eden. It is freezing and a vast blackness stretches upwards and beyond the first few rows of chairs that I can make out. I draw my attention down and into the group, I take in the stage lights set up around the group, the lighting technician adjusting things at the edge of the circle, Yvonne looking on with her camera. Now I can see the people in the group I will be working with, some I know well and we exchange easy smiles, others are new to me and new to the psychodrama method, sent along by enthusiastic friends to a free workshop. Briefly, I get anxious as I consider their experience, this must seem crazy to them, to be sitting in this place among all of this. |
6 |
2020-12 |
| Shaw, Yvonne |
The Honest Mirror (PDF, 1.2 MB) |
Journal 29 December 2020 |
auxiliary, auxiliary ego, mirroring, photographs, photography |
Photographs, even documentary ones, are ambiguous records. I am drawn to many types of photographs, ones that are tricksters as well as ones that are faithful. In my own practice as a photographer I am interested in making portrait photographs that mirror social encounters, photographs that connect the viewer to a depth of expression in human relationships. In April, 2019 I was in a marvellous, run-down theatre in Auckland making a series of photographs of psychodrama that I hoped would bring the method of psychodrama to life in a realistic way. This is the story of how that series came about. It is a telling of my love for photography and my love for psychodrama and the parallel I see between the photograph and the psychodramatic concept of the mirror. |
5 |
2020-12 |
