Few practitioners can bring us so intimate an image of a humpback, an image taken in the first-person and finished on archival paper, soaked to its margin in topaz ink.
Whatever practise Anne returns to - be it painting, photography, being in the water, or writing – it’s as though she’s never been away from it. In continually exploring she enjoys a transdisciplinary approach: daring, encountering, and retelling.
— Angela Trolove
Experiments on 35mm film,
Tawharanui and Whananaki.
A kelp bed sits exposed at low tide near the island at Te Kohuroa, its holdfasts, stipes, blades and bladders glint mustard-yellow in the evening sun. The falling tide pulls all the way out, turns, pours languidly back over the kelp’s yielding tendrils.
Exposed kelp bed, Te Kohuroa Matheson Bay.
This image published in Whispering Bird Song, The Handmade Darkroom Sustainable Photography Collective, August, 2024, pg 18.