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  • China

    你好 上海 Ni Hao Shanghai!

    Travelling to Shanghai again I’m first reminded how differently the light falls as soon as we step off the plane and onto the tarmac. There isn’t that New Zealand clarity to…

  • China

    Travelling shoes

    For a light so tranquil, glowing an afternoon gold, this place feels like a bustling highway. There are waving cats and hanging ducks by the bundle; scooters to dodge down cobbled…

  • New Zealand | North

    Sweet summer

    Like many things, I feel like summer never really just ends, instead it fades away in bursts and waning flickers. The days get shorter and the nights longer, and before you…

  • New Zealand | South

    Green fashion on location

    To follow up an amazing adventure to Shangahi, China we hosted a delegation of designers and lecturers from the Shanghai University of Engineering and Science (SUES) late last year for the…

  • China

    Sleepless in Shanghai

    I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced anything quite so fast paced as Shanghai. Driving into the city felt dangerous and exciting with cars coming at us from every direction as grid…

  • New Zealand | North

    Laying in the long grass

    Having just returned home this week my mind is still partially somewhere between Warkworth and the Wairarapa waiting for a beer in the midday sun. It doesn’t get much better than…

  • New Zealand | South

    On the road to Paradise

    It can be difficult and we can forget that the role of ‘the photographer’ is not all-genre-encompassing. We don’t have to be good at everything- we can specialise and put time…

  • New Zealand | North

    The house I lived in

    A couple of weeks ago I revisited the south Wairarapa where I grew up.. The house I lived in. Back then it was black, with a red roof and white trim.…