Fiona Pardington’s portraits of the lost birds of Aotearoa New Zealand – in pictures
via theguardian.com
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For more than two decades, Pardington has been photographing taonga (Māori cultural treasures) and natural history specimens in museums around the world. In the South Canterbury museum, she was struck by a collection of stuffed native birds which had been subject to taxidermy – many of them now extinct or endangered. They inspired a new […]