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Ghosts in the Landscape
Sunday, 13th November '11 -
Ghosts in the Landscape
Though a relatively young country, New Zealand has had a rich and varied history, experiencing wars both at home and abroad, and its share of triumphs, disasters and challenging events.
Ghosts in the Landscape takes us on a journey through some of the visual and haunting remnants of our history. From stirring memorials to those lost in world conflicts or at home on our roads, to once-productive now closed mines, rusting shipwrecks and deserted cars, discarded bridges and de-manned lighthouses, to stark and dramatic natural landscapes; all have some links to our collective memory.
Grant Sheehan’s photographs record, in deliberately definitive black and white, what he sees as ghostly yet real reminders of New Zealand’s shared past.
About Grant Sheehan
Grant Sheehan is a photographer and publisher who lives in Wellington. He has over 12 books to his name, including Landmarks, Notable Historic Buildings of New Zealand and the award-winning New Zealand Landscapes, Northland to Antarctica. He has twice won the Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year award.
His work has been exhibited nationally and recent shows include Photo Synthesis, a collection of abstract photographs (2008) and Antarctic Images in 2009. A nationwide exhibition of photographs from Ghosts in the Landscape will follow the release of the book. More information on this can be found at: www.ghostsinthelandscape.co.nz
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