Great South Road is the road I live on but also one that carries a long history. Extended south from Auckland in the early 1860s, it formed part of the infrastructure used during the Crown invasion of Waikato and the conflict with the Kīngitanga.

I became interested in how histories of that scale can remain present in ordinary places and our everyday lives without always being visible. The photographs shift between distance and closeness. They examine what cannot be fully recovered: incomplete memories, inherited histories, absences and things that have been forgotten. Staging photographs allows me to explore the tension that emerges when what happened, what is imagined and what is remembered all occupy the same space.

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