Eye of the Storm Photograph 2013:10:25 18:08:49

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of four people on a cherry picker, installing strings of tarpaulin flags above the tram lines on Worcester Street bridge. The installation was titled Eye of the Storm and was created by students from the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.

Photograph by Neil Macbeth 269

Images, UC QuakeStudies

St John Ambulance personnel preparing an oxygen mask while standing over a stretcher loaded with medical supplies. Behind them, emergency personnel can be seen searching the ruins of the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street for trapped people. Over their heads, a member of the Fire Service in a cherry picker is spraying water on the fire burning in the building. Smoke is billowing from the building.

Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-:[Christchurch earthquake and the New Zealand fl…

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

The cartoon shows New Zealand's flag but it has lost one of its four stars. Down in the lower right corner a group of rescue workers using cranes, a cherry picker and a long ladder have pulled the fourth star out of the rubble and are replacing it on the flag. Context - on 22 February 2011 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in Christchurch which killed 185 people and caused very severe damage. Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).