Images made through repeated encounters with Hagley Park trees, approached as individual subjects.
Amongst the Trees began in 2020 during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, following a moment of stillness while walking in the forest at Rakaia Gorge. That experience initiated an ongoing practice of returning to trees as sites of grounding, listening, and presence.
Since then, Hagley Park in Christchurch has become a place of repeated visitation, where trees are approached as individual subjects — rākau — observed over time and changing conditions.
Informed by concepts of pūngao (energy) and Papatūānuku (the living earth), the photographs function as quiet portraits shaped by attention, proximity, and stillness.
This series extends earlier work from Godley After Dark (2021), continuing an exploration of night, presence, and connection with the natural world.
