Photographic favourites: Sixty picks |
 Antarctica: This is the only black-and-white photograph in this selection of sixty of my favourite pictures. It’s a photograph that I took on 29 November 1979 of the tail of the Air New Zealand DC-10 that had crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus the previous day. The picture quickly came to be used as a symbol of the accident, and it has been called “one of the iconic images of New Zealand’s 20th century.” I’ve included the photograph in this web-album because it is – without a shadow of doubt – the best-known picture I’ve ever taken. It will almost certainly be remembered long after my work as a political scientist has been forgotten. The photograph has been published countless times in newspapers, in magazines, and in books (such as, for example, Michael Guy’s White Out!, Paul Holmes’ Daughters of Erebus, and Air New Zealand’s Celebrating 75 Years). |