title: Marion Kirker
text: # Marion Kirker
  
  Marion Queenie Kirker (1879 - 1971) was a New Zealand photographer. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Kirker was born in Auckland in 1879. She left New Zealand in the mid-1920s and moved to London to learn the Bromoil printmaking process. Using this process she was able to creatively manipulate the look of her prints. In 1937 she became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and later the same year was elected to Associate membership. In 1938 she was awarded a medal by the Cripplegate Photographic Society in their annual print competition.
  
  Kirker later returned to New Zealand and began using a Paxette camera to produce work in the new colour snapshot format.
  
  Kirker died in 1971.
  
  