AUTHOETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD
The series draws on autoethnography, using my own experience of immigration and belonging as primary research material.
The camera becomes a tool for examining one's own position rather than documenting an external world.
tauiwi
This series is a practice-led inquiry into what it means to exist as Tauiwi within Aotearoa/New Zealand, expressed entirely through the photographic image rather than through text or argument.
I use photography as a form of self-reflexive research, allowing visual experience to carry the weight of identity, presence, and positionality.
TAUIWI
A Te Reo Māori term for non-Māori people living in Aotearoa New Zealand, those who have come from elsewhere.
To name oneself Tauiwi is to acknowledge that position honestly: present in a place whose deeper story precedes one's own arrival.