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Image credit: Raymond Sagapolutele

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.

Anoushka Brahmin - 12 years - Wānaka Manure is one of the best natural fertilsers you can use so why would you go and create another plastic bag to get rid of it. Jack Fair - 11 years - Wānaka Eva Van Walt - 12 years - Wānaka Dougal McConnell - 12 years - Wānaka Zephyr Walker - 12 years - Wānaka Rahana Brett - 11 years - Wānaka Jacob Toomey - 12 years - Wānaka Hana Jones - 12 years - Wānaka Jem Pendlebury - 12 years - Wānaka Hinato Watanabe - 12 years - Wānaka Felix Eastwood - 12 years - Wānaka Tommy Cotter - 12 years - Wānaka Olive Sinclair - 11 years - Wānaka Fletcher Chisholm - 12 years - Wānaka Tessa Jones - 12 years - Wānaka Collaborators and supporters
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Raymond Sagapolutele

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Camilla Rutherford

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Wānaka

When it came to deciding on what to photograph in Wanaka it’s easy to say you are spoiled for choice when you have the Mt Aspiring and Lake Wanaka for a backdrop. The point of difference for me was trying to work out how to shoot parts of the local area in a way that reflected my thoughts around climate change.

The key for me was in the land – the land in three phases, the early morning, midday, and the evening. This is a landscape that has seen change many times over for longer than many of us can even comprehend, both man-made and natural and it will continue to change long after we’re all gone. The soft light of the rising sun on the world famous boundary marker hardens by midday to draw out the textures of the stone shores near Beacon Point. By the late evening the land softens again and the stars look down on a land that will endure but even rock can break and with the impact of human activity and the pressure on resources change may come sooner than expected.

For a kid from South Auckland it’s humbling to see the beauty of nature in this setting. I am used to seeing roads, light pollution and multi-level office blocks. Forever grateful for the chance to see the water so far inland, a child of the Moana, I am grateful for the chance to get another perspective.

Raymond Sagapulutele www.raymondsagapolutele.com

Heal the Earth

We are part of nature, we are not separate from it, we are part of her healing. My interest in our connection to the earth starts with how we produce food as this effects everything. As we remember that for all of our actions, there is a re-action, be it positive or negative, we will be able to make choices to regenerate our mother earth. She is so forgiving, and she wants to heal. From what we choose to buy, what we choose to eat, choosing to grow our own food, supporting our local regenerative farmers, we will connect back with our earth.

During the workshop, I told the children that there are more living organisms in a handful of healthy soil than there are people on this planet, and this blew their minds.

It all starts with our soil.  We look after this and we can draw down carbon, biodiversity will thrive, insects and birds will return, water will be clean, animals and plants will be healthy and we will subsequently be healthy, eating nutrient dense food that is regenerating our soils. This is our future, this is our children’s future.

Camilla Rutherford www.camillarutherford.co.nz

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