Framed Photographic Print - Still Standing, Puketoi
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Framed Photographic Print - Still Standing, Puketoi
Out on the Maniototo plain there is a small concrete building that has stayed with me. I know that people once lived here, and I have even met someone who remembers it as home. I often wonder what life was like within those walls, particularly in the depths of winter, when a concrete house in this exposed landscape must have been a cold place to be.
When I began working on this image, I let myself follow a feeling rather than a particular plan. I brought the building together with billowing clouds photographed separately, creating a sky that feels a little more imposing than the one above us on an ordinary day. Layers of texture add to the roughness of the scene, drawing the landscape around the house and holding it within the image.
There is a vulnerability to this little building beneath such a vast sky, but there is strength in it too. The house is still standing, as are the bare winter trees around it. I find myself thinking about the people who have made their lives on the Maniototo, then and now, and the quiet determination it takes. The landscape is not always an easy place to live, but people have found a way to make a good life here.
Photographed by award winning photographer, Janyne Fletcher GMNZIPP. This image won a silver distinction award at the 2026 Iris Photography Awards run by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.
Framed Print:
- Photographic print on textured cotton fine art paper.
- Custom framed in a burnished charcoal timeber frame (30mm wide)
- Mat board in off white
- Includes standard picture framing glass.
- Framed print measures 630mm high x 800mm wide
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Please allow 2 - 2 1/2 weeks for processing. Please note that most orders are printed & framed once a customer has purchased and only a small amount of stock is held.
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