Photography
Irreplaceable images on the block again
A decade ago our biggest newspaper publisher made an ill-fated deal to send its almost all of its entire archive of photos offshore to be digitised. They never came back - and now their LA-based owner… Audio
Irreplaceable images on the block again
A decade ago our biggest newspaper publisher made an ill-fated deal to send its almost all of its entire archive of photos offshore to be digitised. They never came back - and now their LA-based owner…
AudioPhotographing Stewart Island over 30 years
One of New Zealand's leading landscape photographers Rob Brown has been travelling to Rakiura for many years now. His popular book Rakiura: The Wild Landscapes of Stewart Island was first published in… Audio, Gallery
Magnificent mountains through an adventurer's lens
Wanaka-based mountain guide Gavin Lang has not only climbed some of New Zealand's highest mountains and remotest peaks, but as an adventure photographer he's captured their beauty too. His book… Audio, Gallery
What a load of bull!
Photographer Amanda King grew up a city girl in Brisbane but life changed dramatically when she met her kiwi farmer husband, while on her OE. They pair now farm in Hororata, about an hour west of… Audio, Gallery
Graham Nash: The 'boy' who still wants to know everything
Two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash might have recently turned 80, but there appears little chance of the octogenarian slowing down after more than half a century in the professional music… Audio
Photojournalism fundraiser highlights history in images
When former Herald illustrations editor Rob Tucker put out a call for photos to auction for charity, photographers around the country responded with a stunning array of images which will be sold off… Audio
Photojournalism fundraiser highlights history in images
When former Herald illustrations editor Rob Tucker put out a call for photos to auction for charity, photographers around the country responded with a stunning array of images which will be sold off…
AudioGrow: Wāhine finding connection through food
Photographer and food writer Sophie Merkens has travelled the length of the country to meet New Zealand women with a special connection with food; women who grow, gather, hunt and forage from the… Audio, Gallery
Pat Greenfield
Taranaki's stunning coast is also one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the world. Since 2000, photographer Pat Greenfield has walked it, documenting the impact of storms, earthquakes and erosion… Audio, Gallery
Photographer Ilan Wittenberg wants direct eye contact
Ilan Wittenberg wants visitors to his new exhibition of photographic portraits not to see subjects in front of a camera, but real people. To do this, he's asked those who sit for him to stare straight… Audio, Gallery
Nature Boy: The Photography of Olaf Petersen
Olaf Petersen is widely regarded as one of Aotearoa's finest nature photographers. Over his 50 year career, from the 1930s to 1980s, he documented the country's landscape and its people. His… Audio
Murray Cammick's show goes on
Photographer Murray Cammick's new exhibition The show must go on comes bristling with levels. It's the old showbiz dictum, of course - no matter what, go on and give them a show. And these days that's… Audio, Gallery
The golden age of state houses
When photographer David Cook started taking pictures of his neighbours in a characterful Hamilton East state housing suburb back in the 1990s, nobody realised that gentrification was about to strike… Audio
The Mixtape: Lula Cucchiara
Lula Cucchiara is a takatapui photographer and film director whose diverse portfolio includes some of our top fashion houses, magazines and musicians - including Ladyhawke, who she worked with on her… Video, Audio
Calling Home: Kylee Dillane in Inishmore
If Kylee Dillane and Irish husband Liam could channel the old Cher song and turn back time, they might reconsider their move back to Liam's homeland in early 2020. But they're making the most of life… Audio
Photographer Andrew Spencer on documenting the Kaikoura quake
When daybreak revealed the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake that ripped through Kaikoura five years ago, Andrew Spencer did what came naturally...he grabbed his camera. The 7.8 quake hit just after… Audio, Gallery
Heather Straka talks about life in Isolation Hotel
A mysterious gathering of characters who've found themselves stranded in a once high-end, now run-down 1930's German hotel - that's the backdrop to Heather Straka's new exhibition Isolation Hotel… Audio, Gallery
Bruce Hunt captures Aotearoa's timeless tussock grasslands
The tussock grassland is a landscape unique to Aotearoa, once covering over 30 percent of the mainland about the time of European settlement. It's been used in innumerous paintings by Dunedin-based… Audio, Gallery
Fiona Clark: veteran photographer celebrated in ‘Unafraid’
In the mid-1970s artist Fiona Clark pushed the envelope with her vivid photographs of Auckland's burgeoning queer scene. Four decades later, a new documentary directed by Lula Cucchiara recounts how… Audio, Gallery