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Hīkoi mō te Tiriti: Uprising of a new generation

January 4, 2025January 5, 2025 pdg 0 Comments Cape Reinga, Dame Whina Cooper, hīkoi, Kaitaia, Kawakawa, Maori, Northland, protest

A photo essay capturing the start of one of New Zealand’s biggest-ever protests, the nine-day Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (‘March for the Treaty’).

‘This must not happen again’: How a nation’s photographic history was lost, and found

September 15, 2024October 6, 2024 pdg 0 Comments Bay Chronicle, Dame Whina Cooper, Daniel Miller, Fairfax, Fairfax Archive, Kaikohe, Kerikeri, Northern News, Northland, Procter Library, Rogers Photo Archive, Stuff

The loss of the Fairfax archive is one of the great debacles of New Zealand history-keeping. Here’s how I found a small part of it back.

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Top news photos of 2020

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 pdg 0 Comments Battle of Kororāreka, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dame Whina Cooper, Haruru Falls, Kerikeri, Kerikeri Fire Brigade, Moerewa, Ngātokimatawhaorua, Otiria, Otiria Marae, Panguru, Project Island Song, Tai Tokerau Border Control, Waitangi, wētāpunga

A global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.