The Terrible Boredom of Paradise / Derek Henderson

Photographs by Derek Henderson
Texts by Joseph Akel, Chris Corson-Scott, and Hanna Scott

In 2004, Derek Henderson set out with a 4×5" view camera, looking to recapture the view from the window in the back set of his parents’ car driving around the country on holidays. Over 14,000km across four months—through cars, houses, churches, street corners, and long stretches of open road—these detail rich and saturated colour images resonate with both social critique and abiding affection for the people and landscape of New Zealand.

Influential in bringing the colour photography tradition of Joel Sternfeld and Stephen Shore to New Zealand, this long out of print and sought after volume inspired a generation of photographers, and is now available once again with an expanded a recorrected suite of images. A new foreword by New York-based New Zealand writer Joseph Akel places the work in its international context, and a new essay by fellow New Zealand photographer Chris Corson-S...