Ans Westra; A Life in Photography by Paul Moon is the first biography of Ans’s life , documenting her early life in the Netherlands and a career that spanned six decades.
Paul Moon a leading historian, worked with Ans before she passed and subsequently with her family, to write a biography which reveals the many personal and professional layers of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important and well known photographers.
Recent media coverage has included:
RNZ Saturday Morning interview with Paul Moon and Lisa van Hulst: Framing a life: Ans Westra
The Conversation: An outsider on the inside: how Ans Westra created New Zealand’s ‘national photo album
Stuff: Damien Grant: Turning the camera on the crowd
Rachel Morris in New Zealand Geographic
Linda Herrick in the New Zealand Listener: Lens on a legend (paywalled)