Resistance - NZME Visual Journalists
Resistance - NZME Visual Journalists
Alex Burton, Michael Craig, George Heard, Mark Mitchell, Jason Oxenham, Dean Purcell, Mike Scott, Sylvie Whinray, Hayden Woodward
Silo 6
Silo Park, Beaumont St, Wynyard Quarter
25 May - 11 June 2023
Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography
Dean Purcell, British activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker is escorted from Albert Park where she was holding a rally as trans-rights supporters close in. 25 March 2023 New Zealand Herald photograph.
NZ Herald photographers were thrown literally into resisting the elements with early weather events starting immediately after the New Year. The surprise weather deluge on the Friday night of the Auckland Anniversary weekend saw Dean Purcell, the Herald's Chief photographer, completely enveloped by events (like many Aucklanders), whilst battling through traffic to get to cover the second attempt at Elton John performing in NZ, after Sir Elton cancelled in 2020 due to ill health. Instead Dean started to work in challenging circumstances capturing news images of unsuspecting motorists' abandoning vehicles on Auckland's motorways and concertgoers trying any means possible to get out of the city and home.
At some of the West Coast beaches of Piha, Karekare and Muriwai the impacts were still being tallied 2 weeks later as Cyclone Gabrielle hit and plunged these areas and the East Coast of the country into complete disaster. Whitianga and the rest of the Coromandel saw startling flooding again which bought down a state highway, and threatened a much-loved Yachting Club. In Gisborne/Tairawhiti and in the Hawkes Bay the devastation was palpable. Emergency Services and communities have dug deep ... one of the ways the NZ Herald photographers have documented these community responses to these nationally significant weather events throughout the summer and other events closer to home .... a snippet of these images will be showcased during the Auckland Festival of Photography.
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