This Summer I went on a North Island road trip with my partner. We had a wedding to attend in Greytown and I had a big open water swim in Taupo so we decided to spend some time on a friend’s Taranaki dairy farm in between. Inspired by some nice typography on some signage in Greytown a little holiday photography project was born. I started to look out for different type (at first, Art Deco) on the buildings as we travelled through the Manawatu (found some beauts in Whanganui) and on to Taranaki. It eventually turned into a bit of an obsession which probably made for irritating slow progress as far as my partner was concerned, as I requested we pull over so I could take a picture of yet “another building”. I’m not sure where the resulting images sit. Somewhere between a collection of type, Victorian and Art Deco facades, shop signage or a few snaps of small town New Zealand? Perhaps it doesn’t even matter. It’s certainly testament to how much fun a little project can be and the different things you can see if you look up, instead of straight ahead as you walk down the street.
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