link that emily found

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=85767714548&h=MFu2z&u=Gq4w-&ref=mf

This idea relates to my old/new dunedin photos that I have been layering and playing with.

more slash seconds, Aaron Hobson this time http://slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/ahobson/index.php

link i stole off Alex's website

http://slashseconds.org/issues/002/002/articles/aweberg/index.php

Another artist commenting on the state of today's tourism culture

Anne Noble's

Antarctica is a landscape that exists only in most peoples imagination, known from photographs and other re-presentations in Antarctic Centres around the world. Anne Noble began to investigate this general experience while waiting to depart for the ice. To fill in time, she visited the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch and started to photograph what she could find of Antarctica in Christchurch, thus beginning the project that took her as far afield as Scandinavia and Japan and which is now presented in this exhibition.

'The Polar Sea (Japan), 2003-04

Antarctica, Nagoya, Japan, 2003. 

Paradise Harbour, Antarctica, 2005

Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica, 2005.

This new work by Anne Noble interests me a lot and I think some of what she's talking about relates to what I'm wanting to do in my work. The whole tourism aspect and how we now see the world. We don't have to travel for weeks to get to far away countries. We can visit them in less than a day, or via the internet in less than a minute.

Artists Impression on what the White Terrace may look like if it still existed.

More John Kinder.

View from Victoria (Waitangi) Bay of Islands, 1865

Ruahine (solfatura) Rotoiti circa 1865.

Whatapoho (geyser) with incrusted rock, Rotomahana 1865.

These Photos of Geothermal activity are now big tourist attractions and its intersting how Kinder has documented these places, almost anticipating the future populatity of them for people travelling the World.


The photos of the White and Pink Terraces are awesome because there are not many good quality images of them around. The terraces were once considered the 8th wonder of the World but were destroyed in a Volcanic Eruption in 1886. I wonder how they would look now if they were still intact.There would probably be a boardwalk right up to them and 100's of tourists snapping away vigarously.

John Kinder

John Kinder was a Photographer and Painter who travelled constantly throughout New Zealand between 1855 and 1903 (the year he died). I got interested by his work because he has some of the earliest New Zealand photography I have seen. You get to see in his paintings and photography how life was in the 1800's in New Zealand which is relevant to my area of research.

After looking through his archives in The Hocken Library I found it particularly interesting how alot of the things he has depicted in his photographs, drawings and paintings have now become popular tourist hot-spots. From the Geo-thermal activity in Rotorua to this selection of Northland Waterfalls, all have now become tourist icons in New Zealands popular eco-tourism industry. The same would be said about the thousands of photographs of Mitre Peak in Milford Sound.


Whangarei Falls, 1858.


Waitangi Falls, 1864.



Kerikeri Falls, 1859.

If you went to any of these Waterfalls in the high season you would see flocks of tourists taking snap-shots to take home to show their friends and family, maybe even to post them onto an online blog. Apart from the fact that they are amazing paintings I found it interesting that these places have become famous. Did he know this would happen? He lived his life as a New Zealand tourist of the mid 1800's, travelling around for more than half of his life!

I will post some of his New Zealand photos soon. Chur

On this blog I will attempt to add info on all of the research that I am doing, key word being attempt. chur