‘You gesture with your camera, okay? You take a photograph, maybe another. You smile – thank you and move on. It’s taken 15 seconds, maybe less. But those brief encounters can be very rewarding. You remember them the rest of your life.’

Auckland’s Murray Savidan is Aotearoa’s best kept photography secret, yet he’s been a leader in the field for some 50 years as a fashion photographer, commercial director, studio photographer, street photographer both in Aotearoa and all over the globe, often in dicey situations. He’s New Zealand’s David Bailey, a storyteller.
This book showcases his best, from the 1960s to 2024. From nude heroes in Berlin, to workers in the old Heard’s sweet factory on Parnell Road, Auckland – challenging, beautiful, surprising; Savidan’s captured them all.