Image: Michael Bradley, Puaki
Photojournalist Michael Bradley has created a series focussing on the Māori Tā Moko, the permanent face markings of the New Zealand Māori. In the 1850s, photographs taken by settlers and developed using wet plate techniques caused the face markings to not appear in the final photographs. Bradley demonstrates this phenomenon in his series to highlight how it servered to supress and almost remove the face markings from Māori culture until a resurgence in the 1990s. In his captivating video for the series, the interviewees describe what their Tā Moko means to them.
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