Place in time

A profile of one Christchurch suburb and the people who call Aranui home.

In September of 2017, Haruhiko Sameshima undertook a short teaching and artist residency at the School of Fine Arts, producing a body of work about the rebuild of Christchurch's central business district.

Up From Water is a collaborative project that looks at three Christchurch pentecostal church communities.

An ongoing body of work about Christchurch's rapidly changing Cathedral Square. A sample of images made to date.

A body of work about Blair Barclay's grandfather, Clem Derreett, and his search for peace near the end of his life, his attachment to place and the solace he found there.

These are the Days is a story conveyed with photographs and text about a family dealing with grief and illness after Ib Glover’s diagnosis with breast cancer.

Think about it: What's a place of significance to you? What makes one place more important to you than another? What's your connection with this place and what is it that continues to make it important in your life today?

A collaborative documentary project on Colombo Street, one of Christchurch’s main arterial roads that spans 6.2 kilometers and runs through the heart of the city, from Edgeware to Cashmere.

To revisit time and again. Days, months and years – a decade already. To study sites from multiple vantage points, ponder the changing light and respond to shifts in weather and seasons. A work in progress drawn from my unwieldily archive.

An intimate and moving account of the last months of a man's life, and the close relationship he shared with his loving family.

A body of work about Selwyn, one of the fastest growing districts in the country, both in terms of commercial and residential development.