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A sun dance in Sandringham : 43 photographs

By: Contributor(s): Series: Photo-Forum (Auckland, N.Z.) ; no. 90.Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Photoforum, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly black and white portraits ; 22 cmISSN:
  • 01110411
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: “In December of 1991, I was born in what would be my bedroom for the following two decades. It was a solid brick and timber 1940’s state house with only one previous owner, a couple called Alf and May Coppell. My parents had purchased the house in 1989 after May had passed away. Years later while studying photography I discovered the classic Marti Friedlander image of ‘Alf and May Coppell, 1969,’ standing in front of my bedroom to be, and it is firmly located in the heart of Sandringham. By 2011, so much had changed in the 20 years I had lived on Kiwitea Street. Many houses had undergone renovation and the shops had mostly changed owners two or three times. Each time shifting the cultural landscape of the neighborhood, from predominantly English, to Chinese and Korean, to unarguably Indian. I remember on the way home from primary school I would get a custard square at the Pidgeon Bakery and look into the mechanics workshop across the road, wondering at the way the light would get stuck on the greasy bench that followed the back wall under a bank of windows. Then I would finish the walk home with tacky fingers, gummed up from excess icing and wash them under the garden tap before going inside to greet my parents.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P TR 647 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Use in Library Only - Not for Loan 0013839

"Published February 2019" Limited edition 200 signed copies.

Published as Photoforum issue 90.

"The 43 images on the following page were all made on the streets of Sandringham 2011-2012 while I went for my afternoon skateboard around the block. Covering the network of roads from Fowlds Avenue over to Dominion Road and Mount Albert Road up to Balmoral / Saint Lukes Road"--Back of title page note.

“In December of 1991, I was born in what would be my bedroom for the following two decades. It was a solid brick and timber 1940’s state house with only one previous owner, a couple called Alf and May Coppell. My parents had purchased the house in 1989 after May had passed away. Years later while studying photography I discovered the classic Marti Friedlander image of ‘Alf and May Coppell, 1969,’ standing in front of my bedroom to be, and it is firmly located in the heart of Sandringham. By 2011, so much had changed in the 20 years I had lived on Kiwitea Street. Many houses had undergone renovation and the shops had mostly changed owners two or three times. Each time shifting the cultural landscape of the neighborhood, from predominantly English, to Chinese and Korean, to unarguably Indian. I remember on the way home from primary school I would get a custard square at the Pidgeon Bakery and look into the mechanics workshop across the road, wondering at the way the light would get stuck on the greasy bench that followed the back wall under a bank of windows. Then I would finish the walk home with tacky fingers, gummed up from excess icing and wash them under the garden tap before going inside to greet my parents.

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