Our City, Our People, Our Place – The Christchurch Documentary Project

The Christchurch Documentary Project is a collaboration between Christchurch City Libraries and the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts to create a documentary photographic record of communities across our city. Each year, photography students from the School of Fine Arts photograph the people and physical and social environment of a community, building an archive of contemporary images for generations to come.

2017: Bishopdale

This year we are creating a photographic record of the Bishopdale community. Interns from the School of Fine Arts will be out photographing from March to August. The photographers are:

• Thomas Herman
• Robert Earl
• Liam Lyons
• Elise Williams
• Janneth Gil
• Lucas Perelini

Find out more about Bishopdale 2017.

2016: Edge of the East

Documenting the seaside communities from Waimairi Beach to Southshore.

In 2016 Janneth Gil, Tegan Hollis-Ristow, and Rachel Pugh from the School of Fine Arts photographed the Edge of the East - Christchurch seaside communities from Waimairi Beach to Southshore.

• Visit the Edge of the East exhibition at New Brighton Library - on until 2 April 2017.
• Read more about the Edge of the East.
• Read: New Brighton: ‘No one is anonymous’ Ashleigh Monk, star.kiwi, 13 February 2017.

• View Edge of the East, 2016 images by Janneth Gil
• View Edge of the East, 2016 images by Tegan Hollis-Ristow
• View Edge of the East, 2016 images by Rachel Pugh
• The Edge of the East slideshow

2015: The Halswell Project

Documenting the wider Halswell area.

Ellenor Waters, Nicholas Glen and Mitchell Bright from the School of Fine Arts created a unique photographic collection The Halswell Project that reflects the diversity of the wider Halswell area in 2015.

• View Halswell Project, 2015 images by Ellenor Waters
• View Halswell Project, 2015 images by Nicholas Glen
• View Halswell Project, 2015 images by Mitchell Bright
• The Halswell Project slideshow

Our city

Our people

Our place