History has been re-created by a group of Otago Polytechnic students.
One hundred and fifty years after photographer Daniel Mundy took a series of photos around Dunedin, some Dunedin School of Art students set out to remake the images set in modern Dunedin.
The 39 images have gone on display at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, with the exhibition opening last Wednesday.
Toitu's visitor experience manager Kirsty Glengarry said it had been ''a real pleasure'' to collaborate with the polytechnic on the project.
''We see it as a contemporary record that adds to our history,'' she said.
The students, who are now in their final year at the polytechnic, took the photos in their second year as part of a community-based project assignment. They were approached by Toitu to re-create the images for the anniversary of Mundy's photos.
The photographers were Lara Colyer, Maxwell Cole, Jade Sheppard, Sophie Reynolds, Rory Allardice and Caitlin Bray. As an interactive exhibit, museum-goers can slide their fingers cross the giant screen which holds the Mundy photos, to see the modern replica taken 150 years later.
But the students did not find the shoot easy, encountering problems with new buildings and other changes to the streets that were originally photographed - making it difficult to get the images from exactly the same viewpoint Mundy had.
''It's hard to find reference points,'' Jade Sheppard said.
''None of the buildings are the same any more,'' Rory Allardice said.
- by Greta Yeoman
