Lomography-Style
Waitaki Street in Bexley, hard hit after the earthquake.
Birch Street in Bexley, hard hit after the earthquake.
Photographs of central Christchurch after the 2010-2012 earthquakes taken 25 February 2012 by Sean McMahon. Locations are chiefly Manchester, Saint Asaph, Cashel, Columbo and Lichfield Streets, and the Bridge of Remembrance.
Images show fencing around areas closed to the public, damaged and collapsed commercial buildings, cleared sites, re-opened Cashel Street area with shops and a cafe.
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Quantity: 34 digital photograph(s).
Vacant site left after the demolition of a building.
An empty section left after a building was demolished.
Birch Street in Bexley, hard hit after the earthquake.
Vacant lot left after the demolition of the Latimer Hotel.
Vacant lot left after the demolition of the Latimer Hotel.
The New Brighton Pier still intact after the Canterbury earthquakes.
The New Brighton Pier still intact after the Canterbury earthquakes.
Cordoned off after damage from the earthquakes.
Graffiti on a wall exposed after demolition of the adjoining building.
A Wilson's car park on an empty site left after the demolition of a building.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square.
Looking through the cordon fence, an empty site left after the demolition of a building.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square.
A digitally manipulated image of a high-reach excavator demolishing a building. The photographer comments, "After the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand the demolition of most of the City Centre began. After two years the government thought that the progress was far too slow, so began the start of the automatic demolition. Luckily when the solar powered demolition machines started to cause indiscriminate death and destruction they were isolated to the South Island and unable to cross the seas".
The Christchurch Cathedral after loosing its tower and spire after the 6.3 quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011. The February 22 quake cracked pillars, twisted walls, shattered stained glass, collapsed buttresses, fractured masonry and toppled the tower. The rose window in the west wall collapsed in the June aftershocks. Demolition of the Chr...
An empty jar of marmite. Marmite supplies ran out after earthquake damage to Sanitarium's factory.
A photograph of the Cramner Courts tacked on the wall, taken after the September 4th earthquake.
Nikki Evans, Department of Social Work and Human Services, who has been researching human-animal relationships after the earthquakes.
Nikki Evans, Department of Social Work and Human Services, who has been researching human-animal relationships after the earthquakes.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of a block of shops at 461-469 Colombo Street, Sydenham.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of the Churchills Club Tavern on the corner of Colombo and Battersea Streets.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of the Churchills Club Tavern on the corner of Colombo and Battersea Streets.
The vacant lot left after the demlition of Latimer Hotel. Some foundations has be laid down to rebuild the hotel.
A computer tipped over and files fallen on the floor in the English department office after the 23 December 2011 earthquake.
A digitally manipulated image of a statue of the Virgin Mary in a broken window of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The photographer comments, "Before the February 2011 earthquake the statue above was facing into the Cathedral looking down a corridor, but after it had turned 180 degrees to point towards the window. The statue of Mary turning like this gave a sign of hope for the people of Christchurch. It was amongst one of the most photographed things after the earthquake until it was removed".
With the land dropping about 1metre to 1.4metres after the earthquakes, a few roads besides the Avon and Heathcote Rivers are flooded with very high tides. Extra stop banks (on right) erected after the quakes have helped, but the road is now well below high water level.
New Brighton Road, just short of New Brighton. The Pages Road bridge may b...
