‘The Winter Garden’ photobook
Launch Saturday 10 March, 1:30pm
To be launched by Harry Culy, Director of Bad News Books
Photobook NZ Book Fair
ICON, Level 2
Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington, New Zealand

‘The Winter Garden’ is a documentary project based in Christchurch, New Zealand following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes by Christine McFetridge. The work considers her psychological landscape and its connection to belonging, home and post-traumatic growth after this period of transition.

McFetridge immigrated to Melbourne, Australia, from Christchurch in February 2013 and began photographing during short trips home. With distance, her sense of what “home” was became informed by memory and nostalgia. In the same way Barthes sought a likeness of his mother from photographs after her death, ‘The Winter Garden’ seeks to identify the familiar in a place continually changing.

By examining the space between past and present through her relationships with immediate family, close friends and the natural landscape, the work negotiates the complexity for McFetridge in reconciling Christchurch as the place she’d grown up in and an earthquake affected city.

‘The Winter Garden’ photobook
Photographs by Christine McFetridge
Text by Ish Doney
Co-published by Bad News Books and M.33
Edition of 50, signed and numbered
NZD $65 / AUD $60 
Supported by Creative New Zealand

Christine McFetridge is a New Zealand born photographer and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Using an auto-ethnographic approach she aims to address social and environmental concerns, with a particular interest in understanding the relationship between people and place. McFetridge is represented by M.33, Melbourne.

www.christinemcfetridge.com

www.m33.net.au/artists/christine-mcfetridge

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