Viewing Album: Thames and Coromandel

John Fields was the first recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grant for photography, in 1975, for his study of the goldfield town of Thames, New Zealand. Here is just a small sample of the many hundreds of photographs he took for his exhaustive documentary study.

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School Bus, Coromandel, 1969. Collection Te Papa.

Shops Coromandel 1969

Storm over Whitianga 1971

Switches Te Aroha 1973

North end of Grahamstown, Thames. The workers were employed by the foundry.

Thames, workers' cabins 1975

USS Enterprise 1970. Collection Te Papa.