Photographer, writer, and for almost 25 years, Te Papa's curator of photography Athol McCredie knows his stuff!
In fact, McCredie's 2015 collection of New Zealand photography was hailed as a landmark piece of work.
A decade later, an expanded edition New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa spans nearly two centuries in more than 400 pages, exploring our identity as a nation and telling stories about life in this country from the earliest days of European colonisation, at the same time looking at how photography has evolved.
See a gallery of images from New Zealand Photography Collected here.
Unknown photographer Group sitting in a field, c. 1917–20 Gelatin glass negative, half plate Purchased 1991, A.009907 Photo: Unknown/NZ Photography Collected by Athol McCredie
