Meet me in the Square

de David Cook

After a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch on 22 February 2011, photographer David Cook returned to his former hometown and found the central city irreparably damaged. He was inspired to unearth his archive of 6000 photographs of the city he'd shot as a young man in his twenties, rebuilding through images the city as he remembered it. Cathedral Square, Centennial Pool, Lancaster Park, schoolboys, punks, nuns. 'Meet Me in the Square' is a moving, nostalgic journey through the city we'll never see again. Accompained by a major marketing campaign (print, radio, poster, billboard, social media) and Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition (31 January - 24 May 2015). David Cook lectures in photography at Massey University's College of Creative Arts. Finalist in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. www.davidcook.co.nz.