When photographer David Cook moved into Hamilton East, he was drawn to the colourful, creative and chaotic lives of his neighbours.
With camera in hand, he explored back-yard mechanics to Sunday roasts, inventing an intimate documentary of a State Housing suburb in the 90s, moments before gentrification set in.
On tour from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata.
Image credit: David Cook “Plunket Terrace”. From the ‘Jellicoe & Bledisloe’ series, 1993-1997.