A Different Light: First Photographs from Aotearoa

The mihini miharo reveals nineteenth-century Aotearoa as never before.

Catherine Hammond is Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago Te Whare Wananga o Otakou. She manages the cultural collections at Hocken Library and the University Library’s Special Collections. She was formerly head of documentary heritage at Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and research library manager at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Shaun Higgins is curator pictorial at Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. He has worked on exhibitions for two decades, most recently Robin Morrison: Road Trip (2023). He has an MA, BA and PGDip from the University of Auckland in anthropology, art history and museum studies, and further qualifications in photography and care and identification of photographs.