Pacific photographer Glenn Jowitt has provided a series of six poster images to the Pacific Media Centre.
They are on display in the centre foyer in new Sir Paul Reeves communication precinct building at AUT University and will be “opened” this week by Junior Samuela on behalf of the Dean of Design and Creative Technologies, Desna Jury.
Glenn recalls about the above picture – one of the images on display:
I was travelling in the Cook Islands and these folks where delivering the VW to the island of Mauke from a Silk and Boyd ocean freighter.
They surfed the boat into their unloading channel and about 20 men carried it onto land.
A following boat that I was on was flipped by the swell we were riding in on it and it was a miracle no one drowned.
I had no cameras on board and as the oarsman said, “I'm out of here,” and dived through the huge swell, I, being a bit of a fish, did the same. The boat sank to the bottom and we watched from the safe side if the swell watched it flip.
The poor Mormons on board, one had a lucky escape in their suits and lost their shoes. On getting back onshore, I had a few nicks on my knees and the kids found my jandals.
The boat is on the cover of Don Silk’s book, From Kauri Trees to Sunlit Seas: Shoestring shipping in the South Pacific.
The boat went around the other side of the island to unload.
Many thanks to our chair, Isabella Rasch, for the donation.
Glenn Jowitt Photography
Pacific Media Centre
