Campaign under way to identify subjects of images shot in 1970s and 1980s by Westra, one of New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographers.
When a black-and-white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a patterned sofa outside an old weatherboard house appeared on a billboard in central Wellington recently, Arthur Uruamo’s phone lit up.
“A lot of people have rung me about that photo,” Uruamo tells the Guardian.
“People recognised me and said: ‘hey Arthur, I’m sure that’s you in that photo’, and I said, ‘it is me’!”
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