Local businesses are rallying behind an innovative sculpture to be built on Pohe Island.
The $500,000 Camera Obscura project aims to offer a new viewing dimension to Te Matau a Pohe bridge using pinhole photography, the oldest camera technology.
Culham Engineering has donated $46,000 worth of steel for the 8m corten steel exterior.
Other contributions include a donation of $4000 of concrete products for the project by Firth Whangarei and time/services donations by Rudolphs, McKays Electrical, GHK Piling / Bowling Infrastructure Group, Richardson and Stevens Engineers, Cook Costello, Geocivil, Formable, United Civil Construction, CCTV-Integrated Consulting and Uber Group.
Organisers have been given drone footage, design services, website and promotional postcards from Snapabove, Level, GFM and Printing.com to help promote the project.