Robertson, Natalie2023-11-232023-11-232023-11-15Pacific Arts — the Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, ISSN: 1018-4252 (Print); 2769-108X (Online), eScholarship Publishing, University of California, Volume 23(Issue 1, 2023), 78-107. doi: 10.5070/PC2231624931018-42522769-108Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17000This photo essay is based on the artist’s doctoral research and exhibition Tātara e Maru Ana—The Sacred Rain Cape of Waiapu. The PhD thesis interrogated the history of photography in Ngāti Porou to show how lens-based image-making can enact Mātauranga Waiapu: cultural knowledge systems specific to this place and oriented to the restoration of the Waiapu River and the wider taiao or environment. The creative works in the project critically adopt the strategies of landscape photography to activate transformative relationships among iwi and hapū in recognition of the degradation of Te Riu o Waiapu by settler colonial practices of deforestation.Copyright 2023 by the author(s).This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/PhotographyMāoriMātauranga Waiapulandscape photographydeforestationsettler colonialism1905 Visual Arts and Crafts2102 Curatorial and Related Studies3606 Visual arts4302 Heritage, archive and museum studiesJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.5070/PC223162493