Christchurch Photo Hunt 2024
Each year Christchurch City Libraries runs the Photo Hunt to gather photographs from across the community, along with the unique stories of their creators.
Photo Hunt 2024's theme was Active Heritage - Sport, Recreation and Leisure.
It was on from Tuesday 1 October to Thursday 31 October, and gave people the chance to share photographs and highlight the key moments in our city's history.
Here in Ōtautahi-Christchurch and Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula we have many stories, from Ngāi Tahu and other iwi, European settlers, Pasifika and people of many ethnic and cultural backgrounds who have made this place home.
Listen in
Amy talks to Digital Curation Librarian, Sarah Snelling about Christchurch Photo Hunt 2024.
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How the 2024 Christchurch Photo Hunt worked
Welcome to the 2024 Christchurch Photo Hunt. Here is how you can contribute your images to the Photo Hunt:
- Upload your photos to discoverywall.nz;
- Submit your photos through our online entry form.
There is no longer a process for dropping your photos at libraries. If you have photos you want to scan, you can:
- Come along to a Digitise Your Photos event at selected libraries during October;
- Scan your photos at Auahatanga | Creativity at Tūranga or at Te Hāpua Halswell Centre. Learn more about how to access the photo scanners.
Please note that bound, framed or mounted photos are unable to be scanned at the Digitise Your Photos events. This is because the scanner feeds through photos rather than being flatbed as with some other scanners. If you would like to contribute any of these types of photos please contact us directly at librarydigitalcontent@ccc.govt.nz.
Prizes
The 2024 prizes:
- $100 Riverside Market vouchers for the overall winner
- $50 Riverside Market vouchers for the People category winner
- $50 Riverside Market vouchers for the Places category winner
Digitisation events
Help tell the story of life in Christchurch at this drop-in digitisation event as part of Photo Hunt 2024 and be in to win prizes.
Bring your photos along and share their history with us. We'll digitise your photos and enter them into Photo Hunt 2024. All photos will become part of the story of Christchurch and added to the Libraries’ digital heritage collection.
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Photo Hunt postcards
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