TuTaHi

Whanganui, New Zealand, December 2012: A rural Maori chapel and burial ground near Wanganui…

In Gaol

Mount Crawford Prison, Wellington, NZ, Nov 2012: Mount Crawford (or Wellington prison) was closed in mid November 2012 after 85 years of operation. The jail on Miramar Peninsula was built by prisoners themselves in 1927, using concrete blocks made with sand from Wellington’s South Coast. The weekend after the closure, the Department of Corrections opened […]

Metéora

Meteora, Greece, April 2003: Metéora, literally translates from Greek as “suspended in the air” or “in the heavens above” – it’s obvious as to why… It is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. This was my first visit to this beautiful and surreal […]

Hospitalized – part 3

Hawera, Taranaki, NZ, Dec 2011: More images documenting the last days of the doomed Hawera Hospital. These were from my third visit to the derelict and semi-demolished former Hospital. Part 1 is here – part 2 here… Within a month it would be gone, without a trace…

The Bunker

Kau Point, Miramar Peninsular, Wellington NZ, Nov 2012: In a hole in the ground there lived a… bunker… Returned to Kau Point recently- a year after we had finally located this former hidden battery bunker. It had changed alot- the first time it had felt we were on a horror “found-footage movie set… (see here). […]

Undisclosed #3

Wellington, NZ, July & Nov 2012: An undisclosed film-set in Wellington, New Zealand…

Tataraimaka

Tataraimaka, Taranaki, New Zealand, September 2012.

SkyFall

Fort Ballance, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2012: Yashica 124G TLR Kodak 400NC

Sinai

Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, Nov 2005: The usual way to ascend Mount Sinai is via a group bus trip from Dahab in the late evening- then do the guided tour from about midnight to the summit. The reason being you will be at the top when the sun rises in the east… It’s a cool idea […]