BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 618

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Damage to a column on 145 Hereford Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0180

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Damage to a building on Hereford Street. Concrete has flaked away around steel reinforcing rods.

He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother

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A large concrete beam, still partially connected by reinforcing rods to the partially-demolished building it came from lies across an entranceway.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0484

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Damage to a car parking building on Lichfield Street. Part of the concrete wall has crumbled, exposing steel reinforcing rods within, and damaging an artwork painted on the wall.

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 1316

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Street. A giant vibrating pair of nibblers makes easy work of demolishing a reinforced concrete building. This section of wall was reduced to rubble in about two minutes".

Monster Munch

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A digitally manipulated image of a excavator claw tangled with reinforcing cable, with a damaged concrete building in the background. The photographer comments, "The monster destroying the earthquake broken buildings close to the Lyttelton tunnel".