A waiata and an accompanying photograph for every day of last year's nationwide lockdown was the challenge Te Anau based photographer Tony Bridge set himself.
Raahui A Walk in the Shadowlands is the book that comes from his daily social media posts over that time. The photographs are intensely coloured, sometimes of a vast landscape and often so abstract that you have to look closely to work out what it is in the picture.
On Day One for example, "in silence untainted by traffic or helicopters or the energy of human intention, I opened my heart and listened to the soft whisper of clouds sliding along the underside of the night...."
Tony was a tour bus guide when the lockdown happened, and he tells Lynn Freeman his writing and photography were what helped him through being cooped up, when he was used to travelling far and wide with his camera.
