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Kia Kaha is a recontextualisation of images taken in Aotearoa (New Zealand) during my time living in the country. The images are of the serene places I was able to call home - standing in stark contrast to the urban background of London’s industrial environments.
The term Kia Kaha, standing for ‘Stay Strong’ in Maori, resonates whilst considering my time in Aotearoa in comparison to London. Since moving here, I have never felt the intimate connection I shared with the Oceanic nation. When recently asked to name my favourite place in the city, it was an impossibly difficult question to answer.
The images were reproduced using basic copy printer paper, this removed an amount of quality from them as they too fade from memory. They were then pinned
up and left in industrial spaces throughout my local neighbourhood, Peckham, as places where I may yet find intimacy in a place where I so often struggle to - almost as an act of therapy. Time will only tell how long they take to be taken away. Before I left them, I documented them using the Wet Plate Collodion method, a process heavily laden with memory, place and time at its core.