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News from NZ Portrait Gallery Bodie Friend from Waikato is the winner of the 2021 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award with a $20,000 cash prize. Bodie’s work “ Nana”, a photograph depicting his great-uncle Pat Kingi, or as he’s more affectionately known as, Nana Pat, was chosen as the winner from 128 entries nationwide and 50 finalists at the TSB Arena in Wellington. Following the award ceremony, a hikoi took place where the winner and runner-up were led by Kiingi Tuheitia to the NZ Portr...

An Air of Permanent Mourning The polarization between city and country is an old story, but now it is entrenched in the upstate communities that were sacrificed to provide water to the downstate metropolis. Luc Sante Share This is the third installment in a four-part series on the reservoirs of upstate New York. Constructed to supply water to New York City, these feats of engineering exemplify the social compact that undergirds ambitious public infrastructures even as they intensify divisions b...