New Zealand icon Marti Friedlander is gifting her series of photographs taken for the Moko project with renowned historian Michael King to Te Papa.

Before the photographs enter their collection, an exhibition of the work, which saw Friedlander and King visit every surviving kuia who wore moko in 1970, will go on display at FHE Gallery in Auckland.

“It is the most moving exhibition, and I was completely overwhelmed with emotion when I saw a preview of these Original Images altogether in the Gallery,” Friedlander told D-Photo.

“I have no doubt that when our descendants want to know what kind of country New Zealand was in the twentieth century, what we did that distinguished us from other peoples, what we looked like, what our character was then one of the major sources for that kind of information and understanding will be the photographs of Marti Friedlander,” said King of Friedlander’s work.

The show runs from February 8 to March 20, 2010, at 2 Kitchener Street, Auckland

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