Marti Friedlander
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marti Friedlander (1928-) is a significant New Zealand photographer.
Born in England, she emigrated in 1958. As an outsider she found herself in a strange land, and began taking photographs to document and understand the country she had adopted.
Marti Friedlander felt constrained by what she saw as New Zealand's conservativism compared to the lifestyle she had enjoyed, and documented and challenged this in her photography and social activism. Her work invovled collaboration with Michael King while photographing Maori women and moko. Many of her photographs have become iconic in New Zealand art.
Friedlander has been widely acclaimed, with major exhibitions and retrospectives at a number of galleries. She was admitted as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998, and was the subject of a documentary by Shirley Horrocks entitled Marti: the Passionate Eye.
