AMITUANAI, Edith, 1980-
Monsieur Murphy Pavihi Tavele, from Dejeuner (Pacific)
During 2006, Edith Amituanai visited France
and Italy as part of a Creative New Zealandfunded
five-week project to photograph
professional rugby players. Each of her
subjects had a Pasifika background, and many
of them were her relatives or friends. The
theme for her work at that time was “third
wave” migration, as the children or
grandchildren of people who emigrated from
the Pacific Islands to New Zealand in the
twentieth century, started to move back out
into the world to seek new opportunities.