Alex Sutherland (middle) with Oliver Sutherland (right )and Ulla Skold. Photo: Victoria Baldwin
Alex Sutherland turned his camera on another member of his family, to document an extraordinary fight for racial justice in New Zealand.
He's directed a short film called When Nobody Was Looking - words uttered by his uncle, Dr Oliver Sutherland, when he appeared before the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care.
As a member of the Nelson Māori Committee and the Auckland Committee on Race and Discrimination or ACORD Oliver was instrumental in the 1970s and 1980s at helping to investigate and publicise the shocking abuse of children, particularly Māori, by the state.
His book Justice and Race - Campaigns against racism and abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand was published last year and the Loading Docs collection is released today.
