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Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 10:11 am
The changing faces of everyday Cantabrians will be on
display in a new exhibition of images from New Zealand’s
longest-running photography studio, Standish and
Preece.
Portrait
of Catherine Komarova (née Scott) at the Villa Maria ball
in 1984. Canterbury Museum
2019.10.4828
Standish and Preece:
Christchurch Photographers 1885–2020 showcases a
selection of the 75,000 images in Canterbury Museum’s
collection that were captured by the studio.
During
the Level 4 lockdown last year, the Museum put 32,000 of the
Standish and Preece images onto its Collections Online
website, calling on the public to help identify the many
people and places in the collection. Since then, more than