Olaf Petersen is one of New Zealand’s finest nature photographers, documenting our country’s landscape and its people. Nature Boy features 60 extraordinary images; from the birds, sea, trees and wind-rippled sand on Auckland’s west coast beaches, to the flora and fauna from the far north to Stewart Island.
You’ll see Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa New Zealand as Olaf saw it and get a glimpse of his fascinating life, his ‘mid-century modern’ photographic practice, and the natural world he documented.
Olaf shows the beauty that is all around you. This exhibition will invite you to stop and recognise it.
Nature Boy is available for tour from April 2023 and features 64 framed works.
Olaf Petersen. 1952. I'm Late. Auckland Museum. © Olaf Petersen Estate.