Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa
Pah Homestead, Auckland
This exhibition was part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2022.
Reviewed by Nina Seja, Art New Zealand, Issue 183
'Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa is one of Auckland’s longest urban streams, flowing from Hillsborough through Mt Roskill, Owairaka and Waterview to the Waitematā Harbour. The creek’s rich Māori and European heritage and abundance of native and exotic flora and fauna makes it an important natural asset. In this series, photographer Tony Nyberg documents the environmental and cultural changes of the creek and its surrounds throughout the seasons, over a three-year period. Tony’s attentiveness to this local ecology over several years highlights the richness of life around this urban waterway.'
Fluid Archipelago
Skar Image Lab, Kingsland, Auckland, 2024
Fluid Archipelago, a series of images from extensive road-trips throughout parts of Aotearoa during which I sought to engage with the fluidity of landscape: its movement from both recent (land instability, flooding) and historic (land-use conversion from settler colonialism). A key undercurrent was our collective complicity in climate change. Dr Robin Kearns, Professor of Geography at Auckland University has contributed an essay, An Invitation to be Moved, to accompany the work.