About
My name is Dean Purcell and i’m a fulltime staff photographer at New Zealand’s national daily newspaper The New Zealand Herald. I have 15-years experience as a press photographer in New Zealand, covering everything from the 50th anniversary of the Korean war in South Korea, travel assignments through Australasia, drug busts in the Pacific and a wide-variety of breaking news in New Zealand, including the devastating Christchurch earthquake and the Rugby World Cup 2011.
I’ve created ‘The Shit I Shoot’ to showcase my personal projects, favourite pictures and a selection of previously unpublished shots.
Enjoy.
The S#!t I Shoot 
Dean
I liked the photo in Canvas! you do good work. Dirk the sailor
April 6, 2013 at 7:52 am
Hi Dean,
Do you send out photos of pics you have taken that are published in the paper. I am after one that you have taken of my daughter during Waitangi.
February 10, 2014 at 6:27 am
Hi Dean.
Just spotted your portrait of Zorawar Singh in the Herald this morning and thought “finally, a decent portrait instead of the usual crap!”.
Mind me asking, did you use something around 135mm at f6.3?
Very nice image Dean.
September 2, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Hi Greg cheers for that, it was shot with a 85mm at f1.8
September 2, 2020 at 10:03 pm