Parohutu (Figure 4 from Tangata~Whenua series)

Waiotahe Beach, Ōpōtiki, Aotearoa New Zealand (37°59′28.3″S 177°14′09.8″E). Long-exposure photograph of Waiotahe Beach at the site of Parohutu, the pā site of Mokomoko, watched over by Pōhutukawa trees.

Whakatauākī: Kia poto, poto ake, poto rawa te ara whakahoki tangata, kia mihia koe e ngā raurākau, e ngā menenga tangata hei te hokitanga ki te kāinga — May the path home be short, and may you be welcomed by the ancestral trees and the smiles of our people.

Part of the Tangata~Whenua collaborative photopoetic project examining negotiated authorship and cross-cultural photographic practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Cultural authority: Toiroa Williams (Te Whakatōhea).
Photograph: Marcos Mortensen Steagall.
Purākau and whakatauākī: Toiroa Arapeta Williams.

Tangata~Whenua, Parohutu, Te Whakatōhea, Māori photography, decolonial photography, photopoetry, Aotearoa New Zealand, Ōpōtiki, Waiotahe, Mokomoko, long-exposure photography, landscape photography, negotiated authorship, Kaupapa Māori, whenua, pā site