All in the family
Cromwell's Gardner family recently visited Queenstown to check out a special 1960s photograph hanging in a local gallery.
The resort's Starkwhite gallery is exhibiting originals by renowned New Zealand photographer, the late Marti Friedlander, including an image of two Southland shearers taking a smoko break.
The one with the fag is the late Richard Spencer Gardner, known as 'Spencer', who'd dropped by his mate Angus McNabb Fawkner's nearby farm to give him a hand.
Pictured below the image are, from left, Spencer's granddaughter Emma, wife Edith and son Richard who all live in Cromwell — Spencer himself died in 2023.
Friedlander shot the photo when she spotted the pair while driving down a Southland road in 1969.
Meanwhile, another recent gallery visitor was part-time Queenstowner Wendy Hannah, who was delighted to see her grandmother Pirihita Pateriki in a photograph Friedlander took of six kuia (elderly Maori women) during the Turangawaewae marae celebrations in 1971.
Gallery director Kelly Carmichael says she's "amazed at how many descendants of Friedlander's original subjects are coming out of the woodwork, and humbled at how emotional and grateful they are to see the original photographs".
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PHOTO: SUPPLIED Cromwell's Gardner family recently visited Queenstown to check out a special 1960s photograph hanging in a local gallery. The resort's Starkwhite gallery is exhibiting originals by renowned New Zealand photographer, the late Marti Friedlander, including an image of two Southland shearers taking a smoko break. The one with the fag is the late Richard Spencer Gardner, known as 'Spencer', who'd dropped by his mate Angus McNabb Fawkner's nearby farm to give him a hand. Pictured below the image are, from left, Spencer's granddaughter Emma, wife Edith and son Richard who all live in Cromwell — Spencer himself died in 2023. Friedlander shot the photo when she spotted the pair while driving down a Southland road in 1969. Meanwhile, another recent gallery visitor was part-time Queenstowner Wendy Hannah, who was delighted to see her grandmother Pirihita Pateriki in a photograph Friedlander took of six kuia (elderly Maori women) during the Turangawaewae marae celebrations in 1971. Gallery director Kelly Carmichael says she's "amazed at how many descendants of Friedlander's original subjects are coming out of the woodwork, and humbled at how emotional and grateful they are to see the original photographs".
