NZ captured in photos
My main hope was to create something that could be useful to other people, to give them something they could use in their own lives. So I focused on telling my story as honestly as I could. I’m not settling scores or giving a political play-by-play. I hoped to bring people inside the experience of growing up a working-class black girl on the South Side of Chicago who became First Lady of the United States. It’s all of me, all right there on those pages, which means I feel a little vulnerable knowing what I’m putting out there. But I hope if I can share my story, with all its ups and downs, then other people might have the courage to share theirs, too.
You write candidly that your time as a lawyer
I am New Zealand: Aotearoa Through many Eyes Various authors, Penguin RandomHouse, $45
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It’s not often you open a book and get actual goosebumps. I am New Zealand is one.
Nikon invited the nation’s photographic community to build an image map of the country online. Photographers around the country jumped at the chance to capture their bit of paradise, from the tip of Te Paki at Cape Reinga to the Catlins in the deep south.
Yes there are spectacular seascapes, deserted wilderness and craggy mountains that we’re famous for. But there’s also a Cuba Street DJ, two old hippies yarned through a You write about your inner struggle, at times questioning whether or not you’re good enough. Do you have any input on how to quell self-doubt?
I may have had some successes in my life, but I can still feel the twinge of embarrassment from when I misspelled a word in front of my class when I was in kindergarten. I still remember the doubts I had about myself as a working-class minority student on an affluent, mostly white college campus. I think we all carry moments like that — and let me tell you, they don’t disappear when you suddenly find yourself speaking to crowded arenas and meeting the Queen of England.
What’s helped is getting older and living through some of those doubts, and realising they’re not the end of your life. In fact, they can be a new beginning. It doesn’t make the feelings any less difficult in the moment, of course, but in the end, self-doubt can actually be useful, as long as we don’t let it overwhelm the way we think about ourselves. It’s all a part of becoming. window in Thames, a wet night at Britomart. It’s all captured in here in glossy colour and the odd black and white. Each is accompanied by a very few words from the photographers — professionals and amateurs — about what they have captured. At the back each thumbnail has photographic technical detail for the purists.
A brilliant and different look at what makes our country unique.
A keen photographer, I read through the whole book with my jaw dropped in envy — and wondering if I should switch allegiance from Canon to Nikon.
There’s no point in buying this beautiful book to send to the rellies overseas. You’ll just end up keeping it yourself.
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