Chris McCarthy & Melanie Dixson bring over 40 years of combined professional photographic experience.






Commercial photographers in Wellington New Zealand

















By 2006 magazines required digital images such as this cover of Sir Roderick Deane above centre.
A decade later the National Bank of NZ had been absorbed by the ANZ, Insto Magazine was gone,
and Mike “Mod’s Motors” O’Donnell was operating TradeMe, where most sellers took their own photographs.
These three magazine covers represent important commercial photography transitions.
I wonder if In 2024 it will be possible to illustrate a photography transition via a printed magazine cover.

















Commercial photographer and leading black & white hand printer Melanie Dixson began shooting professionally in Wellington in 1998. Melanie joined forces with Wellington commercial photographer Chris McCarthy in 2002, together they set up their studio in Wellington’s CBD. Chris & Melanie have been photographing together ever since!
Chris: chris@thephoto.nz
Melanie: melanie@thephoto.nz
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