A photograph of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions Convent.
Street art seen across a vacant and overgrown demolition site. On the wall are the words 'LOVE' and a girl holding a small plant.
A photograph of a pile of bricks from the earthquake-damaged St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.
Damage to a building on Colombo Street. It is surrounded by piles of brick and overgrown plants. Part of a graffitied wall is also visible.
A photograph of a nut and bolt in a beam from St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.
A photograph of a nut and bolt in a beam from St Paul's-Trinity-Pacific Church.
A photograph of a woman hanging bunting at Gap Filler's 'Film in the Gap' project.
A graphic showing damage to the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings.
An illustration of a smartphone showing the location of AMI Stadium at Lancaster Park.
A Gap Filler banner on a fence around the community Book Exchange, a Gap Filler project at the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets.
A wall exposed by the removal of a damaged building on Litchfield Street. It reveals an old painted advertisment for 'McCormick Reapers & Binders'.
A photograph of builders preparing framing for Gap Filler's office.
A fire engine parked behind the cordon fencing and road cones on Victoria Street. In the background is Christchurch Casino and the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
The walkway from Cathedral Square, looking down Colombo Street towards The Crossing bus exchange building on the left, and the Ballantynes building on the right.
Detail of a building on the corner of Manchester Street and Struthers Lane. A room covered in grafitti has been exposed after the wall crumbled.
McCormack and Mckellar Auctioneers store on Victoria Street. Through the window is a sign that says "McCormack and Mckellar are open for business".
A view into the Red Zone from Colombo Street, looking through cordon fencing. Some shipping containers and diggers can be partially seen in the background.
A view down Madras Street to a cordon checkpoint. In the background is the damaged Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, which has been partially demolished.
The streets are quiet – a parked car sits outside Dalgety’s, a lone tram rumbles towards the tram sheds and a tired delivery horse stands with his head bowed, eating chaff from his feed…
Our city is a repository for the social and historical narrative of our past Each street, wall, facade, interior is an integral part of the people who walked passed them, shopped in them, worked in…
Workers seen through a gap between wooden pallets in GapFiller's Pallet Pavillion. The photographer comments, "Though it looks strange and Photoshopped this is a straight shot through pallets painted blue. The Pallet Pavilion is built on the site of the demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel. It was built by volunteers, mainly students and construction engineers over 6 weeks. Here students are being given health and safety instructions before helping out on completing the temporary structure".
A video about the work which is being conducted in the Christchurch Red Zone in the weeks after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Members of the New Zealand Army and Civil Defence are working to secure business premises by boarding up broken windows and doors. The video also includes footage of the damage to the Fisher's Building, the Press Building, Ballies Bar, and ChristChurch Cathedral, and many buildings on High Street.
A video about lingerie boutique Hot Damn which relocated to Re:Start Mall after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The store opened up on 22 January 2011 in New Regent Street but was forced to close for eight months after the February earthquake hit. This video is part of The Press's 'Up and Running' series, showcasing businesses which have stayed up and running despite the challenges posed by the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes.
A video of an interview with John Turner, owner of Ambience Tiling, about the restoration of the tiles in New Regent Street. Turner talks about working with SCE Stone & Design, who sent the sample tiles to China where they were machine replicated. The tiles took six to eight weeks to arrive, with about 10,500 new tiles produced. The video also includes an interview with Iain Taylor, a tiler at Ambience Tiling, about the retiling process.
A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Nao Yoshimizu comforting the grieving relative of an earthquake victim. The image has been further graffitied to hide the officer's uniform, and the original advertisement text ("You too can do something extraordinary. Become a cop.") altered to read "You too can do something ordinary. Become a human".
A video of a tour of two completed shops in New Regent Street. Mark Galletly from Galletly Builders talks about the damage caused by the 22 February 2011 earthquake, the work that was done to restore the shops, and the items that archaeologists found on the sites. The items found included the foundations of a nineteenth century ice skating rink, and bowling shoes. The video also includes an interview with shop owners Brian and Betty Hazeldine.
Aerial footage of the Christchurch central city. The video includes footage of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Manchester Street, the former Press Building, Worcester Street, Cathedral Square, St Elmo Courts, Cashel Mall, St John the Baptist Church hall, the Regent Theatre, the Arts Centre, Woolsack Lane, and the Farmers car park.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Colombo Street north of the Town Hall".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. The Countdown supermarket on Colombo Street in Beckenham".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Doug Cowan points to a new hole on Charles Street, which suffered liquefaction damage after Tuesday's earthquake."