item details
NameAli
ProductionTerry O'Connor; photographer; 1976-1977; Auckland
Classificationblack-and-white prints, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, works of art
Materialssilver, photographic paper, photographic gelatin
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, gelatin silver print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography
DimensionsImage: 229mm (width), 151mm (height)
Registration NumberO.033826
Credit linePurchased 2010
Overview
This extract originally appeared in New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa (Te Papa Press, 2025) on page 301.
In the late 1970s, Terry O’Connor got to know some of the Pacific workers on the factory floor of the South Auckland printing and packaging firm where he was a white-collar worker. His photographs of a Samoan employee and his extended family are among the first to depict the new wave of Pacific immigrants who came to New Zealand for work. Today, they stand as visual evidence of a massive demographic shift.