About the Author

Marti Friedlander is New Zealand's leading photographer whose work features in books including Moko: The Art of Maori Tattooing (with Michael King, 1972), Larks in Paradise: New Zealand Portraits (with James McNeish, 1974) and Contemporary New Zealand Painters: Volume 1, A-M (with Jim and Mary Barr, 1980). Her work is also the subject of a number of books including Marti Friedlander by Leonard Bell (2009), shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998. Hugo Manson is a senior New Zealand oral historian. He was co-founder, with Judith Fyfe, of the New Zealand Oral History Archive (now the Oral History Centre at the Alexander Turnbull Library) and has specialised for many years in recording contemporary oral history in many parts of the world.