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From lighthouse keepers to taxi drivers: publishing lesser read voices with Adrienne Jansen
There are many books about lighthouse keepers. And many iconic images of lighthouses on our coastline. Yet the lighthouse keeper was pretty much made extinct in the 1970s in New Zealand when… Audio
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Ans Westra reflection
We pay tribute to Ans Westra - a pioneer of documentary photography in New Zealand. Anna Westra CNZM was born in 1936 in the Netherlands and immigrated to New Zealand in 1957 at the age of 21. Well… Audio
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Ans Westra dies aged 86
The noted photographer Ans Westra has died aged 86.
She was regarded as one of New Zealand's most important documentary photographers.
Charlotte Cook looks back at her life. Audio
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Acclaimed documentary photographer Ans Westra dies
The noted photographer Ans Westra has died at the age of 86. She was regarded as one of New Zealand's most important photographers, capturing unique sides of Kiwi life. See some of her most famous… Audio
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Through the lens of Ans Westra
Audio 17 Apr 2022Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra has captured on film some of the quintessential images of New Zealand life over her many decades behind the camera. She's remains deeply proud of her Dutch heritage… Audio
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Luit Bieringa: director turns lens on Theo Schoon
Never shy of dealing with controversy, Luit Bieringa has often tackled complex and flawed New Zealand cultural figures in his films. In his new film, Signed, Theo Schoon, Bieringa turns his attention… Video, Audio
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Galleries re-awakening and sharing their collections and exhibi
Arts correspondent Julia Waite joins Kathryn to talk about how Covid-19 has been an opportunity for galleries have 'leaned in' to their own art collections, and are sharing more of the art here in New… Audio, Gallery
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Camera on Community - Visual Artist Chevron Hassett
Maori are used to having their experience captured by others. Think of the photographs of Ans Westra and Marti Friedlander. But Chevron Hassett is a young Maori artist taking the camera into his own… Audio, Gallery
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Martine Bannvinger's new play about fellow migrant Ans Westra
Audio 20 Oct 2019Dutch migrant Ans Westra really shook things up in her new home with her revealing black and white photographs of New Zealand, particularly her controversial school bulletin, Washday at the Pa. After… Audio
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Art photography in Sixties New Zealand
Audio 9 Jun 2019There's so much more to the 1960s than the hippy movement and free love. And in New Zealand photographers were out on the streets and inside homes, recording everyday life and creating what we now… Audio
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Springbok photos
A large private collection of photographs taken during the 1981 Springbok tour - many of them never or seldom seen before - remind us of a pivotal moment in New Zealand's history. Well known… Audio, Gallery
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Art not to be missed
Suite Gallery owner David Alsop takes us through some of the most interesting visual art that is on offer around the country right now. Audio
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Erik Westra: exploring Aotearoa on two wheels
Erik Westra talks to Kathryn Ryan about his love of long distance cycling and his 3000 km journey on the Tour Aotearoa. Erik's love of exploration began as a young boy - the son of renowned… Audio, Gallery
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Room with a (point of) view
You see a lot from as a tourist in your own land. You learn a lot from looking again at the known. So - here is the first of a series of tourist guides to our own Parliament.
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Ans Westra: a life's work digitised
The National Library has digitised and preserved over 150,000 negatives from photographer Ans Westra. Ans's friend and agent David Alsop and half-sister Yvonne talk about Ans and the project. Audio, Gallery
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Photographer Ans Westra’s digital drive
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Pop artist Wayne Youle
Amberley-based artist Wayne Youle is in the studio to tell Lynn Freeman about his two big shows this month. There's a retrospective exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery with the intriguing title… Audio
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Living museum for Ans Westra
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A living museum for Ans Westra
A unique collaboration between a private dealer gallery, Suite and the Alexander Turnbull Library to create a living museum for the work of photographer, Ans Westra. David Alsop of Suite Gallery and… Audio, Gallery
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David Alsop
David Alsop previews several new exhibitions: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos at Te Manawa Museum in Palmerston North; Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation; the latest offerings from Wellington artist Rob… Audio
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Ans Westra - Damning Pictures
Audio 5 May 2013In a new book, photographer Ans Westra delivers a strong message to New Zealanders to consider the environment we are leaving for our children. The book includes photographs that show a damning… Audio
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Ans Westra and David Alsop
Audio 21 Mar 2012Dutch-born NZ photographer joins founder of the 'Suite' Gallery in Wellington where The Westra Gallery will open tonight. Audio
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Washday Remembered
Photographer Ans Westra and the re-publishing of her iconic publication Washday at the Pa, 47 years on from when it unconsciously captured New Zealand's social and cultural issues of the time. Audio
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Book Review - Paul Diamond
Audio 10 Nov 2011Written by Mark Amery, images by Ans Westra, published by Suite Publishing, reviewed by Paul Diamond. Audio