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-Scott provides a history of its local importance, alongside an updated version of Hanna Scott’s essay from the original 2005 edition.
Published November 2026
Softcover, 168 pages
ISBN 9781954119581
Co-published in the USA with Daylight Books.
$70.00
New Zealand born Derek Henderson (b. 1963) currently divides his time between Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. Aside from his innovative and distinct work in fashion photography, Henderson also exhibits work as part of his fine-arts practice both nationally and internationally.
