Author: Peter Peryer

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Supermarket

 
 
While shopping in the Freemans Bay
New World in Auckland, my attention was caught
by these trolleys tightly packed together.
 
This photo is not
one that I would include in 
my ultimate body of work
but I need to pay attention as 
to why it caught my attention
in the first place. There is something
here that is saying hello Peter.
 
 

Waitomo Caves Hotel

 
 
A couple of weeks ago while exploring
limestone caves two hours drive 
north of where I live, 
 I stayed for 
two nights in the Waitomo Caves Hotel
shown above.
 
I was glad to stay there because the
last time I had visited was when 
I was a boy. I stayed in this very hotel.
It was one of a number of resort hotels that
had been built by the New Zealand Government,
Chateau Tongariro was another one.
 
My parents used to go on Winter holidays
in their expensive Jaguar, all walnut 
and leather, to these hotels. 
Amazingly they used to let me drive
this machine when I was about 16 or 17.
This car was often seen outside Takapuna Grammar School.
 
 
 
After I had stayed in the Waitomo Caves Hotel
and saw the architecture of the hotel
I was so reminded of an abandoned hospital
here in New Plymouth.
I think that it may have been  built by
the same government architects.
 

Waterfall 1982

 
 
Once on the Napier Taupo highway
with a close friend called Trevor Haysom
I came across this waterfall.
I had to take a photo of it because 
to me it seemed so Amazonian.
 

Marakopa Falls

 
 
Near Waitomo there is are these 
beautiful falls easily accessible by foot.
The falls are much bigger than they 
appear in this photo. For some reason
the scale seems to have altered,
but then again, that is something
that often happens when I photograph.
Not that I do it intentionally.
 
Below is a waterfall that I 
photographed in 2002. This
one is not real though. It 
is in a park near where I live
and can be activated by pushing a button.

Waitomo Caves

 
 
For some years I have been wanting
to photograph stalagmites and stalactites.
A couple of weeks ago I got
the opportunity and these are three
of my initial attempts.
 

Hamish McKay Gallery

 
 
Here is a view 
of some works at Hamish McKay Gallery
in Wellington. 


I like the unusually
large gaps between the works.





Landscape, Norsewood

 
 
This photograph is currently on show at’
Hamish McKay Gallery. Taken last
year it has not been exhibited until now,
in spite of it being an image that
I value very much. I don’t know why
but it means a great deal to me.
 
It also reminds me of a photo that I took
3 or 4 years ago at the McRaes Flat gold mine,
not so much in an emotional way, but 
structurally. There is a certain
congruence.

Fern

 
 
This fern photo came to me latish last year and is currently on show at 
Hamish McKay’s in Wellington. The opening was yesterday
although we didn’t have an actual opening. 
 I am reminded
of the 1984 fern photo below
from the slopes of Mt Taranaki. 
I remember the day well.
 

Natalie

 
 
Currently, at the Gus Fisher Gallery
in Shortland Street, Auckland
a selection from the last 30 years.
 
Here is a portrait that my
father made, this one of my sister
Natalie when she was about 15 yrs old.
 
 

Buddha, Kaukapakapa

 
 
This black and white photo
I took in 1998.
The golden statue sits on a hill 
above a Tibetan Buddhist
community in Kaukapakapa,
about 30 minutes north of central Auckland.
About 2 weeks ago I visited the
statue again and this colour photo
is the result.
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