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Group of participating kids with their teachers
Group of participating kids with their teachers

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.

Willow Lunn - 10 years - Whakatū Talia Thomason - 11 years - Whakatū Roald Sayer - 11 years - Whakatū Riley Fowler - 11 years - Whakatū Ray Forsey - 12 years - Whakatū Pipi Johns - 10 years - Whakatū Melody Wells - 12 years - Whakatū Matthew Lang - 12 years - Whakatū Tahlia Peeni - 11 years - Whakatū Lilly Hodson - 11 years - Whakatū Aya Noel-Harvey - 11 years - Whakatū Kayla Trotter - 12 years - Whakatū Jess Hope - 12 years - Whakatū Izzy Johns - 14 years - Whakatū Izakiel Pochon - 12 years - Whakatū Brooke Terrell-Hall - 10 years - Whakatū Collaborators and supporters
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Photographers

Raymond Sagapolutele

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Tatsiana Chypsanava

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Through the Eye of Whakatū

When you’re given the opportunity to work with young artists with a focus on climate science and its relevance to the world we live in and the whenua we live on it can be daunting to pull together images that reflect your time in that space at that moment. This is where I found myself with this project. I have been to Whakatū before and I have loved it as a visitor and tourist so filtering out that lens and trying to see with a mind to what is happening with the climate was not going to be easy. I kept seeing the postcard pretty images.

The first few shots I decided to grab were sunset shots, crisp and bright with the cleanliness that comes from golden hour light cutting through a winter chill that produces sentimental faux summer photos. Then something odd happened, farmers all over the country decided to protest the proposed ‘ute tax’ and some took issue with the focus on climate change and not enough on the plight of the agricultural sector. Tractors charged down streets, words were said, and opinions shared.

Two days later I found myself in the eye of a storm that flooded roads, soaked farmland, and cut off townships. Tides climbed and nature made its counter argument and I managed to get images that called out to the risk of living on the coast when climate change is raising sea levels and the old safety nets no longer work. The images I caught during the rains and in the calm showed the risk that we face literally living on the edge when the science tells us that change is on the way if we do not change our ways.

Raymond Sagapulutele  www.raymondsagapolutele.com

To kaitiaki of tomorrow

Whakatū Nelson, surrounded by an untamed natural habitat, beautiful yet dangerous, and loved by the many people who call the region home, even just for a while. An afternoon bicycle ride to Tāhunanui Beach, during lockdown, we saw emotional states transformed and captured into frozen images. It all began with that first moment during an earlier trip to Kenepuru Sound in Malborough, that first image of a solitary rock, standing tall in a watery grave, like a sentry of old sandy guardians withering away to nothing but memories. Beyond the rock, a dimly lit tunnel suggests another path, perhaps a gateway to a fiery new beginning with more smoke plumes bellowing from chimneys.

Papatūānuku, the earth, our environment has now succumbed to human gluttony. It is the over-use, over-consumption, over-exploitation of what was once treasured that distances us from her. And now, there’s an anxiety and uncertainty to what may come if we do not recover that feeling that once made us treasure our earth and our surroundings.

Perhaps, as rangatahi, as youth and leaders of our tomorrow, you have that feeling to nurture, to value, to advocate courageously for change, radical change that will preserve your dreams of continuing to inhabit a beautiful, natural environment.

Tatisiana Chypsanava – tatsiana-chypsanava.format.com

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