WHARF WARRIOR: John Robinson with the 2023 calendar raising funds for the restoration of the Tokomaru Bay wharf. The calendar is dedicated to photographer Jill Carlyle and has images of her, or taken by her. Picture by Liam Clayton
This year's Tokomaru Bay wharf restoration fundraising calendar is dedicated to the late Jill Carlyle.
“The photos will either be of her or by her, in her memory,” said Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust volunteer and historian John Robinson. “She had a passion for black-and-white photography.”
Photographer Carlyle loved the community
of Tokomaru Bay, where she settled in 1988. To get to her house, she had to cross a ford, part of the Mangahauini River. It was that river which claimed her life when she was trying to make the crossing in September after heavy rain.
Te Papa and the Tairāwhiti Museum hold collections of her work.
The Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust is in its ninth year of selling calendars to help fund the wharf restoration project.
