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Raul (he/him)
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One photo a day, from in and around Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
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Christchurch, 2018
#vintage #ruins #earthquake #haunted #photography
Washed-out photograph of a wooden door in a brick building with graffiti of a cartoonish, Pac-Mac style ghost, helpfully labelled “GHOST” in block capitals. The building itself was a half-destroyed relic of the earthquakes that I suspect has long been demolished.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Newtown, 2025
#photography #nz #aotearoa #monochrome
Black-and-white photograph of a wooden octagonal turret, part of an unusual house along a typical inner-suburban street, against a sky threatening rain.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Miramar, 2022
#photography #monochrome #nz
Black-and-white photograph of a miniature science-fiction cityscape, which was used for a revival of the children’s television show “Thunderbirds”, if memory serves.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Auckland, 2025
#photography #streetart
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of chalked graffiti on a plain gray wall asking the question “if my pillows are blankets, what are my blankets?” and featuring a drawing of a bed and several Zs. This is in an area with lots of rough sleepers, thanks to this government’s murderous “austerity” policies.
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Newtown, 2025
Reposting this because of new research showing that these two pokokōhua have killed hundreds of thousands of poor black and brown people.

So glad our shitheel PM posed with one of them last week. #nzpol #photography #graffiti
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of red stenciled graffiti on a white plywood wall reading “WE SAID NEVER AGAIN”, flanked by pictures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the latter making a Nazi salute.
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Whanganui, 2023
#photography #monochrome #streetart
Black-and-white photograph of a wooden sculpture of a dragon’s head emerging from a brick warehouse building along a tree-lined suburban street, all under a mostly sunny sky.
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Napier, 2024
#photography #urbanism #neon
Oversaturated photograph of an alleyway illuminated from above by circular, brightly coloured neon lights, which lend the murals on the walls a surrealistic glow.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Newtown, 2025
#nzpol #graffiti #streetart
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of graffiti reading “Capitalism is Fascism” painted in black on a whitewashed plywood wall.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Dunedin, 2020
#photography #monochrome #dunners #winter
Black-and-white photograph of a suburban park covered in a thin blanket of spring snow, with low hills in the distance, towards which two small figures walk, backs to the camera.
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Dunedin, 2018
#photography #dunners #midwinter #carnival
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of an elaborate paper lantern shaped like a castle with multiple turrets in vastely divergent styles, lit from within by candlelight and silhouetted against the buildings beyond.
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Khandallah, 2025
#photography #monochrome #graffiti #nzpol
Black-and-white photograph of a plastic pipe on a concrete power pole, with a weathered sticker reading “THE OLD WORLD IS GONE”.
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Newtown, 2024
#nzpol #streetart #photography
Slightly oversaturated photograph of a concrete power pole with a homemade sticker reading “David Seymour is Peter Thiel’s little bitch”. Definitely not too keen on the misogyny and the vague homophobia, but will make an exception to allow the insult to Seymour.
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Vancouver, Canada, 2024
#photography #kits #sunrise #vancouver
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of a calm shoreline just before sunrise, dominated by a large metal geometric art peice in the middle distance. Reminded me uncomfortably of Douglas Coupland’s “Girlfriend in a Coma”.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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In any reasonable world, Luxon being this shit-facedly delighted to meet an open facist would make National unelectable for a generation.
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Miramar, 2025
#photography #monochrome #abolishon
Black-and-white photograph of a heavy chain securing two sides of a high-security gate outside an abandoned prison, a monument to a continuing failure of imagination and empathy amidst native bush.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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For fuck’s sake. The trains where I live (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) have a whole auntie-based PR campaign:
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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For fuck’s sake. The trains where I live (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) have a whole auntie-based PR campaign:
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Waimea Canyon, Hawai’i, 2017
#landscape #hipstamatic #hawaii #photography
Faux-vintage photo of a colourful, complex canyon stretching to the horizon under a deep blue sky shot through with Bob Ross looking clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Miramar, 2025
#photography #monochrome #nz
Black-and-white photograph of a large graffiti-adorned water-storage tank against a storm sky torn by winds that a still camera cannot otherwise capture.
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Miramar, 2025
#photography #abandoned #grafitti #nz #vintage
Slightly oversaturated photograph of a portrait of a young woman on thr side of a derelict water take, rendered in pink and black spray paint and perfectly capturing the mood of an abandoned carceral institution.
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Queen Street, Auckland, 2025
#photography #monochrome #auckland
Black-and-white photograph of a row of Victorian buildings with shopfronts at the street level and tin awnings protecting the footpath below, all showing signs of neglect and a slow economic collapse. Newer buildings and an elusive promise of better days and better city governance are visible in the background.
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Pito-one, 2025
#photography #vintage #huttvalley #nz
Oversaturated photograph of a row of chaotic boathouses in a range of colours and architectural styles, one with a brightly-painted sailboard over its roller door.
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Auckland, 2022
#photography #monochrome #nz
Black-and-white photograph of an empty shop window with a “For Lease” sign. The open floor space of the building is broken only by a bizarre sculpture of a camel and a stereotypical Middle Eastern or North African traveler.
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM