Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 10:27 am
A project that created 1,500 images, taken by University
of Canterbury student photographers over five years, has
resulted in a new exhibition that captures and celebrates
the extraordinary in the ordinary.
We
Stand here: Celebrating Five years of the Christchurch
Documentary Project opens at Tūranga on Friday 9
July. The exhibition offers a window into the people and
environments of Ōtautahi Christchurch during a period of
rapid change and post-earthquake recovery, from 2014 to
2019.
The exhibition curator and Director of the
Place in Time: Christchurch Documentary Project,
University of Canterbury Senior Lecturer in Photography Tim
Veling, says the selection was chosen to showcase often
Leicester Riders want to seize the opportunity to claim silverware this evening.
Not because the threat of Covid hangs over the WBBL like a dark cloud with so many postponements already and a backlog of unplayed fixtures that may eventually make completion of the Women’s British Basketball League campaign an impossibility.
Simply, declares Ella Clark, because the rearranged Cup final, against Sevenoaks Suns in Manchester, represents just one quarter of a four-slice pie.
“We want to add a trophy to the trophy cabinet because hopefully we want to do a clean sweep this year,” the forward declares.
“That’s the goal for any team. We definitely want to win. But I’m not going to talk about the season possibly ending because I hope it doesn’t.”