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Group photo participating Te Tairawhiti Tamariki
Group photo participating Te Tairawhiti Tamariki

Image credit: Te Rawhitiroa Bosch

Rangatahi

A nationwide, photography project for young people, focussing on climate change.

Good storytelling can change minds. The power of a photograph lies in the way it engages our imagination and involves us in an unfolding story.

Khalos Whanarere-Reid - 12 years - Ngāti Konohi, Ngā Paerangi - Te Tairāwhiti Arihia Tuhaka-Haapu - Ngāti Konohi, Ngāti Porou - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Ariana Stuart - Ngāti Konohi, Ngāti Porou - 12 years - Te Tairāwhiti Torrin Ross - Waikato, Ngai Tākato, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kotimana - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Ryan Love - Ngāti Konohi, Ngāpuhi - 12 years - Te Tairāwhiti Ben Love - Ngai Tamahinga, Ngāti Konohi, Ngā Paerangi - 12 years - Te Tairāwhiti Tawera Ehau - Ngāti Porou, Uepōhatu - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Pyper August - Ngāti Konohi, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Manawa - 11 years - Te Tairāwhiti Wyatt Scully - Ngāti Porou, Ngai Tahu - 13 years - Te Tairāwhiti Sky Hohipa-Wehi - Ngāti Kahungunu - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Te Ariki Hailey - Ngāti Konohi - 11 years - Te Tairāwhiti Lucky Rose Barbarich - Te Whānau ā Apanui, Tainui - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Bailey-Jane Maaka - Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou - 11 years - Te Tairāwhiti Tina May Downs-Campbell - Ngāti Konohi, Ngāti Porou - 10 years - Te Tairāwhiti Quincee Chaffey - Ngāti Porou - 11 years - Te Tairāwhitiā Te Aroha Ihimaera-Matete - Ngāti Konohi, Ngāti Porou - 12 years - Te Tairāwhiti Frederyk Riddell - Ngāti Pōrana (Poland) - 12 years - Te Tairāwhiti Materoa Leatham-Tai Tin - Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hine - 11 years - Te Tairāwhiti Collaborators and Supporters logos
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Te Rawhitiroa Bosch

Image credit: Te Rawhitiroa BoschImage credit: Te Rawhitiroa Bosch
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Hiria Parehuia Julia Barbara

MokopunaMokopuna
Mokopuna Tukuna Mauri ora

Te Mataara o Whangarā

Nōku te waimarie i whai wāhi au ki te mahi tahi, ki te ako tahi ki ngā tamariki o Whangarā. Ko rātou ko ō rātou kaiako ēnei e tū pouwhenua ana, e tū poumoana ana, he kaiwhakaaraara mō tō rātou hapori, mō tō rātou pā kāinga, mō Whangarā.

Kei whakaaro ake te tangata he tamariki noa ēnei, he kūare ki ngā āhuatanga o te ao, e kao! E mārama pai ana rātou ki ngā pānga o te tangata ki te huringa āhuarangi, ki te āpōpō e haere mai nei inā ka kore tātou e aro ki taiao.

Koia nei Te Mataara o Whangarā, ko tēnei whakaaturanga tō rātou reo whakaaraara hei whakaoho i a tātou.

It was my privilege to work with and learn alongside the tamariki of Te Kura o Whangarā. They stand as guardians of the land and sea and their voices are raised to awaken the people of their home, Whangarā.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that they are just kids, ignorant to the ways of the world. They are wide awake to the impact we as people have on our changing climate and the effects it will have on our future if we don’t take action now.

They are vigilant, they are aware, this exhibition is their call to action so we can create a brighter future.

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Mauri oho

He tapu rawa te aroha o ngā mokopuna ki te ao marama, nā reira, honohonoa rā rātau ki a rātau kia ora ai te ao.

Dr Natalie Robertson

Log piles, looking to Whangaokena, East Cape, December 2018.

From the realm of Hinetūparimaunga and Tane Te Waiora in the mountainous inland forests, Parawhenuamea — the atua of alluvial waters — travels downstream carrying sediment. At the coast, she meets the ocean Te Moananui a Kiwa. This was the natural order of water cycles until settler-colonial deforestation, agriculture and now commercial forestry violently disrupted the ecology of Te Tairāwhiti. Waiapu River now has the highest suspended sediment load of any river in Aotearoa—at 36 million tons per annum—and one of the highest in the world.

The beach closest to Tīkapa is approximately 7km long stretching from the headlands Whakariki and Te Upokoohinepaki at the southern end of Port Awanui to the Waiapu river mouth, the ngutu awa. The beach wasn’t always as wide as it is today. During the first decades of the twentieth century, successive earthquakes pushed up the coastline. As sediment washes down the Waiapu river, much goes out to sea, while some settles on the shore. Heavy rainfall sends loose logs into rivers and many end up on the beach. Sand and sediment slowly bury the logs, leading to a widening beach. Today, with rising sea levels, increased ocean temperatures and extreme storm events, it is clear that what happens inland ‘ki uta ra’ negatively affects where shore meets sea ‘ki tai ra’

For a Ngāti Porou economy that was utterly dependant on food from the sea, this has had disastrous results. Taken on the beach near Port Awanui in November 2018, logs are piled head height along the beach. That month had been particularly wet, with extreme flooding in places.

Where are the fish that can eat mud? Where are the native birds that can feed on pine needles? The roots of pine trees do not bind strongly to land, nor do the roots of those who made decisions on and for our land, without us. Balance can begin to be restored by drawing on the Mātauranga Māori of community-based knowledge keepers, in decision-making about whenua.

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