Belinda Whitta is a photographic artist, with a sustainable and alternative analog practice.
Frequently working within the intersectionality of feminisms, representation of land and body, and our contextual settler colonial histories and rituals.

Belinda facilitates a hands-on, process-based practice that feels out new ways to communicate the invisibilities or un-seen and un-spoken elements within our relationships, histories, representations and spaces.
Using sustainable photographic processes aids her in maintaining a continuous reciprocal relationship with the landscape, thinking of the land not as an object but an entity.

In her current research and practice for the Masters of Fine Arts degree at Whiti o Rehua Massey University, Belinda is exploring the edges of photographic processes, empowering space in the installation process to reiterate the works themes of vulnerability and intimacy. Fascinating by the intersection of folk witchcraft and alternative or sustainable photography, Belinda uses witchcraft as a nature based religion that forms deeper collaborative relationships with land. Having an alternative and sustainable analog photographic practice that is used to uplift the voice of land, whilst inviting collaboration, is significantly empowered when witchcraft is introduced. Witchcraft enables us to communicate with non-human life forms, through our powers of intuition and an awe for their knowledge.

Belinda graduated with a Bachelor of Design with Honours in Photography in 2022, and is currently working towards a Masters in Fine Arts at Whiti o Rehua Massey University.

Belinda was invited to assist lecturers Shaun Waugh and Jonathan Kay in the introduction of photography to first year College of Creative Arts students. This lit a passion for education and encouragement in the next generations of photographers and artists. In the second semester, Belinda assisted senior lecturer David Cook in teaching the second year photography major students. Encouraging the students to find their voice as an artist, and to see the power, impact and advocacy their art can have.

Having co-founded the handmade darkroom in February of 2023 alongside Samson Dell, the pair have received positive support and encouragement in the creation of a local collective that are fascinated with alternative and sustainable photographic processes.

Belinda and Samson were invited to speak on a panel titled ‘One is the Loneliest Number: Working Collaboratively in a Solitary Profession’, as part of ‘Peter Turner Symposium - Through Shaded Glass.’ Speaking alongside Virginia Woods-Jack of ‘Women in Photography NZ + AU’ and Victoria Baldwin of ‘Women's Work’, facilitated by Helen Mitchell.