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Sandhills, Te Paki Stream

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Sandhills, Te Paki Stream

Some New Zealand photographers have tried to exploit the strong contrasts created by the sharp light. Robin Morrison, one of the foremost photographers in the 1970s and 1980s, liked to evoke abstract patterns in the landscape.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

by Robin Morrison

Courtesy of the Estate of Robin Morrison

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Jock Phillips, Light – Light and the arts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7685/sandhills-te-paki-stream (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.