Wahine Hoiho: Celebrating Sylvia Durrant

Friday, 22 November 2019, 10:58 am
Article: Todd Henry

A Visual Ethnography by Todd Henry.

Until recently, 85-year-old Sylvia Durrant spent virtually every waking hour of her day caring for sick and injured penguins and other birds at her home on Auckland’s North Shore.

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