Laurence Aberhart Photographs;
Essays by Gregory O’Brien and Justin Paton
VUP, NZ$125 | Reviewed by Andy Palmer

THE LAST FEW years have seen a proliferation of survey shows and publications of New Zealand photography and photographers – Marti Friedlander, Anne Noble, Peter Black, Ans Westra, Gary Blackman, and Wayne Barrar. Most of these photographers began their photography as part of the documentary tradition: the photo-journalist, the street photographer, think Magnum, think Robert Frank, Walker Evans etc.