Kennedy Warne was the founding editor of New Zealand Geographic magazine. He is now a contributing writer and editor-at-large for New Zealand Geographic and an occasional contributor to National Geographic. His recent stories have explored issues of environmental ethics and the concerns of indigenous people. His book Roads Less Travelled: Twenty Years of Exploration with New Zealand Geographic was published by Penguin Group (NZ) in 2008, and his book on the plight of the world's mangrove forests, Let Them Eat Shrimp: The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea, was published by Island Press in 2010. Peter James Quinn was born in Te Aroha, his family later moving to the Eastern Bay of Plenty. He studied photography at Wellington Polytechnic in 1989 and upon graduation photographed the book Staunch: Inside New Zealand's Gangs (text by Bill Payne; Reed, 1991). His second book, Highway 35: Travels around East Cape (text by John Woods; Reed, 1998), was a finalist in the Montana NZ Book Awards, and a twenty-year retrospective, New Zealanders in Focus (Kowhai Publishing, 2010), was included in the New Zealand Listener's top 100 books of 2010.
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