NZ Life & Leisure

Beyond the Cordon

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24 March to 14 May, Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato A poignant showcase of 79 full- colour images taken by a team of police forensic photograph­ers provides renewed understand­ing of the devastatio­n caused by the 2011 Christchur­ch earthquake. In the weeks following the disaster the task of documentin­g the rescue and victim recovery operation inadverten­tly fell on 23 police personnel. Armed with an awareness of historic times needing to be captured, they recorded what they saw in the central city including rare and extraordin­ary aspects of the operation in the Red Zone. waikatomus­eum.co.nz

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