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Digitising Theo Schoon’s photographs of Māori rock art

Intern Tim Fortescue-Willis has spent the last six weeks cataloguing and digitising Theo Schoon’s photographs of Māori rock art. Tim describes his journey working with these negatives and reflects on what he’s learnt about Theo Schoon during his time at Te Papa. Read more

2019-08-01
By: Guest writer
On: 1 Aug 2019
In: Collections Online, History, Māori
Foot in geothermal landscape

1,500 mud pools: Theo Schoon’s geothermal photographs

Last year, a four-year project to digitise nearly 1,500 Theo Schoon photographs of bubbling mud and thermal landscapes came to an end. Thanks to the hard work of Image Coordinator Lucy Jackson and Archivist Jennifer Twist all of these images can now be viewed on Collections Online.Read more

2018-03-19
By: Jennifer Twist
On: 19 Mar 2018
In: Art, Behind the scenes, Photography, Science

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