Introducing David Cook
David Cook is a photographer and lecturer based at Massey University, Wellington. His published photobooks deal with communities in transition. Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township was a finalist of the 2007 Montana NZ Book Awards. Meet Me in the Square (2014) reconstructs the city of Christchurch through images he made in the central city during the 1980s. River Road: Journeys Through Ecology (Cook, Puke, Valentine 2011) explores the landscape through a bicultural lens. His forthcoming book, Jellicoe & Bledisloe, deals with life in a state housing suburb.