A new photography exhibition in Hawera offers a look into the past and the present.
Hawera photographer Kevin Bone has curated a Retrospective in Colour Photography which exhibits his grandfather's never before seen photos next to his own recent works at the Lysaght Watt Gallery in Hawera.
The exhibition showcases William D G Bloy's photographs, which have been printed from coloured slides taken in the 1950s, mainly around Southland and Otago. Bone's own work featured in the exhibition includes humpback whales he photographed in Tonga last year as well as landscapes and old Taranaki halls and homesteads.
Kevin rescued his grandfather's photographs from his parent's garage 20 years ago and has since had 300 of the coloured slides scanned and printed. He used to go through them when he stayed with his grandparents as a child.