The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa.
Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focussed and driven, overcoming a difficult childhood in the Netherlands and later adult relationships to forge her own path.
Warm, engaging and sympathetic, this richly illustrated biography interrogates her remarkable, and at times controversial, practice and a life that always put photography first.
Paul Moon
Massey University Press, May 2024
328 pages, 230 x 163 mm
ISBN:978-1-99-101677-5
NZ$49.99 incl GST
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