My name is Brian Harmer. I am happily married to Mary since 1970. We have five wonderful grown-up kids, Catherine, David, Drew, Ants and Lena. I love our sons and daughters-in-law too, and regard our grandchildren Grace, Isaac, Maggie, Jack, Billie and Otis as special treasures.
I spent most of my working life in the IT industry starting in 1966 writing programs in Fortran on an IBM 1130. Later in time, I began to regret the errors of my mis-spent youth and undertook an MBA degree at Massey University and then a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington.
I spent the last 15 years of my working life as an academic in the School of Information Management in Victoria University's Business School. I loved teaching and research, but the bureaucracy not so much. I retired in 2011 and have enjoyed making images almost every day since.
In about 1994 I commenced providing a New Zealand news aggregation service intended for expatriate kiwis and this grew into a blog which, at its peak had 4,500 followers. That ran its course and I closed it in March 2019. This portfolio is its logical successor, though I am yet to become fully familiar with the mechanisms of Adobe's Portfolio and Behance Apps which I am using to deliver it.
About me ... I regard myself as a humanitarian. On a political scale, I have been described as somewhere to the left of Mahatma Gandhi. I am a fairly liberal Catholic, though you won't hear me pushing that at you. I mention it solely to account for my philosophy. When I say liberal, I believe in equal rights for all including the LGBTQ, and believe that if the church is to survive, it needs to ordain women, lots of them. Did I mention that, at least theoretically, I am a feminist? But most of all, I hope people will encounter me as a husband/father/grandfather/friend who would rather do a good turn than not.
I shall address my photographic/artistic philosophy and influences elsewhere.
The photograph of me is by my friend Neil Gordon
