Kia ora tatou: Shahidul Alam argues in this essay that may challenge your preconceptions, that the aid agencies do at least as much harm as good, and that photographers sent in to document it are falling prey to prejudices. He argues: Invariably films about the plight of people in developing countries show how desperate and [...]

  I love books. I especially love photography books. From time to time I have wondered whether or not the photography books we buy/have bought define us as photographers, the path we have travelled and our place on the photographic helix. Over the years I have bought many of them. Some of them have become [...]

I am not sure when I really decided I liked Christchurch. It was probably around 1999. We had been treating each other with disdain since 1963, when my family moved into town from the Ashley Downs. My father had won a promotion so our carefree country days as forestry brats came an end. My mother [...]