Sam Walters
Sam Walters was born and raised on the North Wales coast in the UK. She pursued and learnt the craft of photography as an assistant and studio manager to American photographer Robert Golden, who ran one of the busiest studios for advertising and editorial photography in London. Following a natural progression from this, Sam moved into film, producing TV commercials, short films and documentaries for the UK and Europe.
In the mid-nineties, Sam moved to New Zealand where, alongside film production work, she continued to pursue her photography before enrolling in a formal study of the arts at AUT University, where she gained a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2002. After graduating she went on to tutor sculpture and photography for MIT on their Dip. Visual in Arts course at Rutherford.
Sam’s work has been a finalist in the Waikato National Contemporary Art awards and she frequently exhibits at galleries around Auckland.
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- Adult Non-Fiction
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Marae — Te Tatau Pounamu A Journey Around New Zealand's Meeting Houses
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A magnificent, prize-winning documentation of and tribute to New Zealand's wharenui, big and small.
Bishop Muru Walters is a very well-known Anglican minister. He is also a master carver, poet, broadcaster and former Maori All Black. His son Robin is a photographer and filmmaker, who is director at Curious Films. Sam Walters, Robin's wife, is a photographer. Together the Walters spent three years visiting some of this country's major meeting houses as well as many of the more humble ones — houses that serve smaller hapu and iwi — to bring together a beautiful photographic book on the meeting house.
They are intensively photographed, with detailed shots of their carvings, kowhaiwhai panels, tukutuku panels and much more. Many are photographed during an event, the images conveying a rich sense of life and activity.
From north to south, from the east coast to the west, and from ancient wharenui to bold new designs, this handsome book, with its engaging personal text, captures the huge variety of New Zealand's original architecture. It's a book for all New Zealanders to treasure.
Winner of Te Korero Pono - Non-Fiction category of the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards