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Photographing the photographer, 1918

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Photographing the photographer, 1918

Leslie Adkin learned how to process photographs while a schoolboy, and took many thousands of photographs over the course of his life. One of his special interests was photographing his family. Here he has captured his sister Vivian Adkin photographing his daughter Nancy and Jimmy McKenzie in 1918.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: A.005974

by George Leslie Adkin

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Peter Ireland, Photography – Photography expands, 1880s to 1960s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43215/photographing-the-photographer-1918 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Ireland, i tāngia i te 4 November 2013.