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Photographer | Ans Westra |
YEAR : | 1963 |
{Suite} Gallery is currently displaying prints from Ans Westra's celebrated 'Washday at the Pa' series (1963).
Over fifty years ago Ans produced text and 44 images for a Department of Education publication aimed at primary schools. The ‘Washday at the Pa’ book presents a day in the life of a rural Maori family with eight children waiting to be resettled in a house in the city.
Following protests from the Maori Women Welfare League,...