An entry in Heritage Tairāwhiti’s inaugural Tairāwhiti Rivers photo competition.
An entry in Heritage Tairāwhiti’s inaugural Tairāwhiti Rivers photo competition.
Time’s up, photographs have been selected and the winners are set to be announced for the inaugural Tairāwhiti Rivers photo competition.
For the past few months, people of all ages with phones and cameras have been focusing on life around the district as they vie for prizes in HeritageTairāwhiti’s competition.
Heritage Tairāwhiti chair Sheridan Gundry said the competition attracted a strong group of entries in the open and school-age sections - the youngest competitor just 5 years old.
Subject matter ranged from remote East Coast rivers to city rivers and Waipaoa River.
Heritage Tairāwhiti chair Sheridan Gundry says the organisation has a focus on telling stories of people and place.
“With our organisation’s own focus on telling stories of people and place, the photo competition provided a way to record images of today for tomorrow,” Gundry said.
The winners will be announced at the Centre for Heritage (former Plunket Building) at 6pm on Friday and an exhibition of selected winners and entries will be opened.
“All are welcome. The exhibition will remain open to the public each Saturday over the summer from 10.30am to 2.30pm,” Gundry said.
“We recognise the importance of photography in telling the evolving stories of Gisborne’s development, and the photographers who made it happen.
“Our centre has a permanent selection of Taruheru River photographs mainly from early photographer, brewer and first mayor William Crawford.
This shot of kids playing in a river was one of the entries in the Tairāwhiti Rivers photo competition.
“The Crawford photographs held at Tairāwhiti Museum are an absolute treasure trove.
“Subsequent collections created by various photographers employed by The Gisborne Herald have added to this enormous resource.”
Tairāwhiti Rivers competition judges were former Gisborne Herald chief photographer Paul Rickard, photographer and former museum director Mike Spedding, photographer and photography tutor John Pennington and Gundry.
“We are most grateful to Gisborne businesses Eastland Port, Rochdale Advisory Group and Personality Framers for providing the prizes,” Gundry said.
