Ashley Cox & Phillipa Tocker for Freunde von Freunden

Portrait of Ashley Cox and Phillipa Tocker's home and amazing plant collection on Freunde von Freunden and more photos at Zeit online.

PRINT SHOP

I've opened a print shop with a selection of my photos :

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Lake Waikarimoana

Judy Millar outtakes

Some outtakes from the Judy Millar portrait over on FvF.

The Top of the Lake

Littel House

While In New Zealand I stayed for a few days at Littel House, Phillipa Tocker & Ashley Cox's holiday home in Napier. They have an incredible garden filled with cacti & succulents. Ashley also collects aloe & has over a 100 species tucked away in the back garden.

Click on each photo to see the photos slightly more clearly. I'm getting a bit fed up with Blogger's poor picture quality.

Clearer images are over on my tumblr.

Rimu

Beautiful native wood was used throughout New Zealand homes in the 1950s and 1960s.
Here rimu was used for the doors and the darker matai for the handles.

John Scott's Martin House, Bridge Paa, Hastings.

Cedric Firth, Wellington

On Saturday I photographed a 1950s Cedric Firth house in Ngaio, Wellington.

Mid century New Zealand

I'm currently in New Zealand working on a project photographing mid-century New Zealand houses.
I'll be posting photos from my travels around the country over the next few weeks.

Restart

February 22

Remembering Christchurch today on the first anniversary of the February 22nd earthquake.

The Overlander

A short piece about The Overlander train journey I took while back in New Zealand is over on the Kinfolk journal.

New Zealand #1

This slide film really seems to have captured the intensity of the light and bright skies of this little piece of Abel Tasman in high summer.
In the last photo you can see the sand is flecked with grains of iron. A magnetic beach indeed.

Kodak e100g

The Seal Nursery

Just north of Kaikoura, where the Southern alps come down to meet the sea, about a 150m walk up into the bush, is a place where mother seals & their pups climb up along a mountain stream to this waterfall.
The babies play here, under the watchful eyes of one or two adults, while the rest of the mothers go out to sea to fish for the day.

The seal pups are only a couple of months old at this time of year and are still too small to go to nursery.
But the short climb up was worth it just for this view.

A shaky start to 2012

I love the way Christmas is extended well into January here in France. I'm not going to be here for the galettes at epiphany this year but I am going to be enjoying the kiwi summer in New Zealand for a few weeks.

I'm flying out to visit family & friends in a few days time & will be spending time in Christchurch. This city has been through so much last year after the devastating February earthquake and the literally thousands of aftershocks throughout the rest of 2010. They had another couple of big shocks just before Christmas, resulting in a very shaky New Year. I hope that 2012 brings better times for the city.

Silver Fern

My talisman - a gold, silver fern given to me by my grandmother.

There's a little game happening between France & New Zealand tomorrow morning.

Go All Blacks!

to a brighter day

Thank you for all your messages & concern for my family in Christchurch after the terrifying earthquake on Tuesday lunchtime. They are all fine physically & pretty much just taking each day as it comes.
Much of the city is still without power & water. It's going to take a lot of time & support to get over this frightening natural disaster.

Art deco Napier

A few years ago while I was on a trip back in New Zealand I photographed the Art Deco houses of Napier. Whilst going through my slides the other weekend I came across these shots. I really like the way the facades are peaking out from behind the vegetation which has grown up around them.

Napier was devastated by the Hawkes Bay earthquake in 1931 and was rebuilt in the architectural style of the time. Art Deco emphased clean simple lines & lack of ornamentation. This style was a practical solution; it was very different from the heavily ornamentated colonial buildings which had caused so much devastation in the earthquake.