Earlier work and work using film
In the Beginning
Image Series
High School series |
Auckland CBD series |
Anzac Day series |
Vietnam War protest series |
Jumping Sundays series |
Queen Street series |
Aotea Square |
Motorway construction |
Sharlands factory series |
Abattoir series |
Bus journey series |
Pedestrians series |
Panoramas
Panoramas composed of multiple individual frames digitally "stitched" together, in these cases from black and white negatives made between 1973 and 1976. In the '70s the possibility of creating panoramas in this way lay far off in an undreamed-of digital future. Back then all that could be done was to trim and mount prints side-by-side, but this led to jarring changes in perspective — which was inevitably rectilinear — from print to print. The only way to achieve the seamless cylindrical perspective of these digital panoramas that was available in those days was to use purpose-built specialized (and pricey) rotational panoramic cameras. Below is one full 360° panorama and several with more limited angles of view.
 Auckland's Shortland Street |
 Auckland central city |
 Great North Road |
 Motorway construction |
 Motorway construction |
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Other images shot on film, both colour and monochrome, can be found elsewhere on the site – in the astrophotography section (Halley's Comet); the 360° Panoramas section, where many of the cylindrical panoramas were made during the 2000s using a medium-format Seitz 220 VR camera; in the Time Lapse section, where the sun and moon still images were shot on colour negative film; and of course in the Then & Now section.
