Raul (he/him)

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One photo a day, from in and around Te Whanganui-a-Tara. A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.

Black-and-white photograph of a narrow outdoor corridor with a polished concrete wall on one side and light coming through large doorways and openings on the other.
Raw iPhone photograph of a lone tui perched on a stalk of harekeke high above an oddly calm harbour near sunset.
Black-and-white photograph of a graffiti-covered hallway in a deserted concrete bunker.
Black-and-white photograph of a concrete spiral carpark viewed from the end of an urban alleyway at night.
Raw iPhone photograph of a deserted beach at sunset with Mana Island just off the coast and and Te Waipounamu on the far horizon. A seagull flies at the very top of the frame.
Oversaturated nighttime photograph of a large wheeled vehicle once used for moving shipping containers on the wharf, showing only part of a wheel and the suspension assembly.
Oversaturated Hipstamatic photograph of a concrete inner-city building left derelict for years after being rendered unsafe by a series of earthquakes. Not sure if this is still standing, but I doubt it.
Black-and-white photograph of a statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns flanked by a modern office block and a cathedral, under a leaden sky. I shot this on my last walk around Dunedin before moving north.
Black-and-white photograph of two large earth-moving machines on an empty concrete slab dotted with grimy puddles, all under a lowering sky.
Oversaturated photograph of jumble of buildings, including a partially demolished parking garage, at the end of an alleyway.
Black-and-white photograph of a high-rise university dormatory building wrapped in scaffolding and colourful transparent mesh in preparation for long-awaited demolition.
Black-and-white photograph of loose, irregular rocky towers under a blasting hot summer sun. Easily imagined as a landscape haunted by the dead.
Black-and-white photograph of a row of graves, monuments, and spindly, winter-bare trees standing black against a chill, clear morning sky.
Black-and-white photograph of a decaying house midway up a steep hill of native bush.
Raw iPhone photograph of neon-coloured loops of string frozen in intricate shapes and hanging in a dark museum gallery, part of an artistic tribute to the tradition of string games among Māori.
Raw iPhone image of a pretty sunset taken from the tree-lined crater of an extinct volcano above a modern city centre.
Black-and-white photograph of two old buildings — a wooden house fitted with what was once a retail shop on the ground floor and a concrete-and-brick Masonic lodge — decaying under a rare clear winter sky.
Black-and-white photograph of a large reflective sculpture in the shape of a pin in a digital map reflecting the surrounding city lights on a cloudy winter night.
Black-and-white photograph of a long-closed shopfront with a large window of glass bricks and the text “MILKBAR AND WAFFLE HOUSE”. Honestly, this place probably ripped back in the day.
Black-and-white photograph of a deserted low bridge spanning a narrow stretch of urban harbour at night.
Black-and-white photograph of an area of native bush in the town belt partially illuminated by two harsh streetlamps.
Black-and-white photograph of a stalk of harekeke projecting into the overcast sky over an oddly calm Wellington harbour.
Black-and-white photograph of a small row of Victorian houses on a heavily wooded hill on a cold, clear night. Clearly, at least one of these is haunted.
Black-and-white photograph of a lone figure walking along a damp half-pedestrianised street at night while carrying a large box under one arm.
Raw iPhone photograph of magic-marker graffiti on a sickly green bathroom wall reading “TODAY'S INTELLECTUALS TOMORROW'S IDIOTS”, below which someone has written “agree”. Richard Dawkins springs immediately to mind.
Black-and-white photograph of the cluttered alleywaybentrance to a closed business called “Catwalk”, likely a nightclub or bar, now piled with rubbish.
Black-and-white photograph of a steep, narrow street between low-rise buildings on a cold, wet winter’s night.
Black-and-white photograph of a medium-rise residential building as a series of abstract geometries.
Black-and-white photograph of a nearly deserted waterfront promenade on a damp winter evening.
Oversaturated photograph of an InsideOUT poster reading “TRANS JOY IS RESISTANCE”.
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of an urban laneway at night, the passageway under two buildings overhung by two comically large decorative lightbulbs.
Black-and-white photograph of an imposing modernist brick church on a narrow suburban street. The large cross on the wall is an intricate and unusual construction of what looks like soapstone.
Black-and-white photograph of two medium-rise residential buildings with dozens of windows like blank, staring eyes.
Black-and-white photograph of a brick wall along a narrow street. This almost looks like an old-school solarised print.
Oversaturated photograph of a row of pohutakawa trees along a wide footpath under a cloudy sky.
Black-and-white photograph of a large graffiti of an anthropomorphic sunflower firing a squirt gun.
Black-and-white photograph of three human skulls roughly modeled in concrete on a cracked concrete wall. Someone has painted the eye sockets red, so they appear to be weeping blood.
Black-and-white photograph of a street blocked with a concrete barrier, on which someone has painted “WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR” as the Beehive lurks in the background. This was taken during the cleanup of Parliament grounds after the occupation by a ragtag coalition of people with various, often nonsensical, grievances.
Black-and-white photograph of a tidal outlet in a light-industrial area during the first Covid lockdown, when the world was beautifully deserted.
Oversaturated photograph of the interior of a modernist chapel with rough concrete walls, geometric coloured windows, and an almost-hispter Jesus as Christ on a plain cross.
Black-and-white photograph of a half-demolished mid-rise building in a sparse urban landscape under a hot summer sky.
Black-and-white photograph of the interior of a modernist chapel dominated by rough textures and open spaces.
Black-and-white photograph of a hotel hallway with dark carpet and dark-coloured doors on both sides.
Raw iPhone photo of a dark, narrow interior hallway covered with iridescent writing, patterns, and pictures, including a unicorn … orbiting a planet with a very active magnetic field?
Black-and-white photograph of a brick warehouse with sliding wooden doors, one of which is painted with a charming round image of a bunch of monstrous but charming creatures. A sinister shadow invades the image from the left.
Black-and-white photograph of a modernist crucifix (Jesus has a chin goatee!) on the rough concrete wall of the glorious modernist Fotuna Chapel, open to the public the first Sunday every month.
Raw iPhone photograph of a colourful advertisement, on which someone has written “TWINKIES KNOW WHAT THAY ARE”. Other context clues suggest that this may in fact be about halal foods.
Black-and-white photograph of a wrecked and partially burned car in a gravel carpark somewhere in the hills.
Raw iPhone image of dawn trying and failing to break through layers of cloud over the city and harbour.
Black-and-white photograph of a rustic woden fence with a battered driftwood arch in a field of tussock, under a winter sky almost completely obscured by clouds.
A series of black-and-white photographs of a narrow urban laneway between two squat brick buildings, lit by bright sunlight at the far end.