Park Up

Catherine Russ

Te Manawa
326 Main St, Palmerston North

19 September – 21 March 2021

On an elevated site above the Manawatū River is Te Motu o Poutoa, known also as Anzac Park but generally referred to by a different name: Pork Chop Hill.

In 1998, photographer Catherine Russ completed Pork Chop, a project documenting the steady stream of visitors to the car-park there. Now, more than twenty years later, she returns with follow-up exhibition Park Up.

“It’s a place with many stories to tell,” says Russ. Photographed at various times of day and night over the summer of 2019 -2020, this new series of portraits captures a colourful and candid slice of life.

Read Michele Duff’s article about Catherine Russ in Stuff, 11 October 2020