Fiona Pardington’s portraits of the lost birds of Aotearoa New Zealand – in pictures
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<p>For more than two decades, Pardington has been photographing <em>taonga</em> (Māori cultural treasures) and natural history specimens in museums around the world. In the South Canterbury museum, she was struck by a collection of stuffed native birds which had been subject to taxidermy – many of them now extinct or endangered. They inspired a new human-scale portrait series of these <em>manu</em> (birds), revered within Māori culture as intermediaries between huma
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<p>For more than two decades, Pardington has been photographing <em>taonga</em> (Māori cultural treasures) and natural history specimens in museums around the world. In the South Canterbury museum, she was struck by a collection of stuffed native birds which had been subject to taxidermy – many of them now extinct or endangered. They inspired a new human-scale portrait series of these <em>manu</em> (birds), revered within Māori culture as intermediaries between huma
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