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The Shops
The apparent subject matter is New Zealand shops - disappearing, sad, beautiful, comic, lonesome, dirt poor, rich in spirit - but perhaps the work is about loss and changes, with shops being metaphors. It is also a celebration of the overlooked and about the poetry of the commonplace.  

The Shops contains 44 colour images by photographer Peter Black and an essay by Steve Braunias that combines intensely personal memoir with reflections on how the online and stripmall revolution has created ghost towns.
  • 250 x 210mm, hardback
  • 44 colour plates
  • Design by Katrina Duncan
  • $40
  • Published by Luncheon Sausage Books
Available from Photospace Gallery, Wellington, Unity Books, and other good bookstores.

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