Ngawi Faces
At the most southern point of North Island there is a village called Ngawi. It is a place I doubt I could find myself, unless someone helped me...
Ngawi is a very remote village and you can’t get in here just passing by, you have to know exactly where are you going and why. It is still a mystery for me how people got in here and how did they find out about this place at first time...
It is a working fishing settlement with around 35 permanent residents. Beautiful location, nice weather, breeding seal colony, lots of crayfish and what is more important - friendly people. They became my main focus from the beginning, but I didn’t know what story I was going to tell.
I thought I will shoot a documentary about fishing as an occupation of people living here, but people themselves were much more interesting subjects with their own stories, memories and reasons to be here.
This is a record of faces of those who made this village appear on map and made it so special. They are the soul of this village. Their stories allowed me to look into the past of place and see how it changed over time.
Sure, time will change everything as it usually does, but those little moments and faces I captured on film will stay untouched, representing past and looking into the future, caught somewhere in the middle...
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