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Māori women are said not to carve, and I’ve always pushed the boundaries, so in terms of using media and photographic tools or film or video it’s my way of being able to carve. So rather than photographs I think of them as ancestral figures.

— Lisa Reihana

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Video allows me to look beyond that framework and to show these characters as alive, proud, handsome, and strong.

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