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RNZ News
23-07-2025
- RNZ News
Nelson photographer's 10-year Tuhoe project wins top award
Left: Children from the Teepa family drive the younger siblings home, after a swim in the Ōhinemataroa (Whakatane) River, in Ruatoki. Right; Tatsiana Chypsanava. Photo: Tatsiana Chypsanava A photograph is taken in an instant, but an award-winning long-term photography project can take ten years - as Tatsiana Chypsanava discovered. The Nelson-based photographer originally hails from Belarus and is a descendant of the Komi peoples of the Siberian North West Ural. She moved to New Zealand in 2008, and worked for Archives New Zealand - which is where she met representatives of Tuhoe, who were preparing for a settlement hearing. It led her to photograph the people living in Te Urewera, Tuhoe's ancestral land, on and off for a decade. That project, called Te Urewera - The Living Ancestor of Tuhoe People - netted her the Asia-Pacific and Oceania Long Term Projects Prize at this year's World Press Photo Awards. She joins Kathryn to talk about why she's drawn to telling the stories of indigenous people. The World Press Photo Exhibition is on in Auckland from 26 July - 24 August, and Wellington from 5 September - 5 October.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki
Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past colonization. The mountain now owns itself with local tribes, iwi, and the government working in unison to manage it. Local tribes have long considered the mountain as sacred and an ancestor. New Zealand officials said they want to confess to forced land confiscation during colonization. "We must acknowledge the hurt that has been caused by past wrongs, so we can look to the future to support iwi to realize their own aspirations and opportunities," said Paul Goldsmith, the government minister who negotiated the deal. The New Zealand legislature passed the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress bill giving the mountain a legal name -- Te Kahui Tupua -- and protection for its land. It will no longer be referred to as Egmont, the name British explorer James Cook gave it in the 18th century. New Zealand gave personhood to the natural features of the Te Urewera scared forest on North Island in 2014, the first country to ever do so. Guardianship of the forest was given to the Tuhoe tribe. The country did the same in 2017 with the Whanganui River, turning over guardianship to the iwi while granting it personhood.
