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Connew: Stopover
Bruce Connew
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Description for Connew: Stopover
Hardcover. Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. This work features photographs from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Num Pages: 188 pages, 69 duotones. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; 3JMC; AJC; JFFN; JFSL1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 430.
Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. ""Stopover"" is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew's narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life.
Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. ""Stopover"" is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew's narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824831981
SKU
V9780824831981
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Ref
99-3
About Bruce Connew
Bruce Connew was born in Auckland in 1949. Since 1976 he has travelled widely, undertaking documentary photography projects around the world. He currently lives and works in Wellington.
Reviews for Connew: Stopover
Connew's work combines haunting images with a text that is poetic, elegant, and moving in its clarity. There is a power and persuasion to his work that even the most scholarly and responsible analyses cannot match. - David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i ""The social commentary embedded in these visual images and in the text, which provides fitting local and historical ... Read more