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Murray Savidan Photography
‘You gesture with your camera, okay? You take a photograph, maybe another one. You smile – thank you and move on. It’s taken 15 seconds, maybe less. But those brief encounters can be very rewarding. You remember them the rest of your life.’ Within this publication are 188 ‘brief encounters’ taken by Murray Savidan, Auckland photographer. The earliest, taken in 1967, is of the Heard’s Building ‘Home of Good Candy’ which stood on the corner of Ruskin Street and Parnell Road Auckland. Since then, Savidan’s candid photography has captured astonishing, challenging, human, puzzling and beautiful, but never anodyne moments all over the world, sometimes in difficult places: Cuba, Nepal, Vietnam, Zanzibar, Namibia, Madagascar, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The photographs you will see here are never dull, though they are diverse. Look left, you’re in a Tokyo crowd crush at Shibuya crossing. Look right and there’s a zebra crossing of a different kind in Serengeti National Park. The con nection which marks Savidan’s work is the photographer as storyteller, something he’s always held to throughout his 50-year career. Now in his 70s, s
This is the pick of his collection since the 70s.
Small edition, perfectly formed, out later in 2024.
Hardback. An exhibition in a book.
Voice from the Sea
A Voyage Around My Uncle
Colin Carruthers, KC
It's well understood, but not widely known, that the Merchant Navy was crucial in World War II in terms of defeating the Axis powers who wished to starve the Allies into defeat. But they paid a high price. Some 149 New Zealanders lost their lives but they are barely recognised each commemoration day. Few know September 3 is Merchant Navy Day in Aotearoa. Colin Watt, born in Mangere, lost his life when Coimbra was torpedoed by a U-boat off Long Island New York in January 1942. In 1939 he sailed from Devonport in Doric Star which was sunk by the Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate. Colin was taken prisoner on the Altmark, transported to 'neutral' Norwegian waters, then rescued by the British Navy under Churchill's orders. Colin's letters home before his death recounted his ordeals, and his romances, in lively detail and his namesake, nephew Colin Carruthers, has pieced his war together with these letters, telegrams, photos and memorabilia.
To be published for Anzac Day, 2025
