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Raul (he/him)
@raulbview.bsky.social
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One photo a day, from in and around Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
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Vancouver, 2024
#photography #graffiti #canada #streetart
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of a metal divider along a suburban street. It is covered with posters, including an old poster of indeterminate purpose that has “BUILD YOUR OWN SHINZO BLASTER ON THE INTERNET” written over it in black block capitals.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Karori, 2025
#photography #monochrome #history
Black-and-white photograph of a two-story suburban house set back from the road. There are antique cannons on the porch and a banner advertising a Scottish history society in the front garden. All hail the magnificent weirdos of this world.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Maupuia, 2022
#photography #monochrome #lovenothate #ruins
Black-and-white photograph of a weathered concrete wall with a mural of a heart wrapped in a ribbon with text reading “Love is the root of anger at injustice” and “smash white supremacy”.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Otago Peninsula, 2020
#dunners #monochrome #photography #ruins
Black-and-white photograph of a concrete bunker overlooking a call harbour under a steely sky.
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Khandallah, 2024
#sunset #nz #photography #naturallight
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of an eerie yellow-orange sky with wispy clouds over sparse native trees.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Dunedin, 2017
#phrography #piano #nz #monochrome
Black-and-white photograph of a battered upright piano on the footpath of a deserted urban street. If memory serves, it didn’t play well.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Terrace, 2025
#monochrome #nz #photography #urbanism
Black-and-white photograph of a multi-story residential building isolated against a cloudy sky.
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Hospital DIY, 2025
#photography #vintage #haunted #skatepark #nz
Oversaturated photograph of a concrete bas relief of three skulls with red-painted eye sockets on the wall of a handmade bowl corner at my favourite unofficial skatepark in Pōneke.
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Te Aro, 2023
#nzpol #transrights #photography #graffiti #protest
Unprocessed iPhone photo of a black temporary plywood fence covered with chalk slogans supporting transgender rights, including “trans lives matter” and “ no retreat from the right to choose”.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Mākara, 2023
#photography #landscape #nz #makara
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of a green, hilly coastline under a relentless midwinter sun. Te Waipounamu is sporadically visible in the distance, obscured by low clouds and haze.
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Johnsonville, 2025
#nzpol #transrights #pride #photography #libraries
Unprocessed iPhone phone of a Pride display at a public library with books and a rubber frog holding a sign reading “Trans is beautiful”. Goddamn right.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Belmont, 2023
#photography #landscape #nz
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of low grassy hills under a hot summer sky studded with clouds. Several concrete bunkers once used for storing ammunition and weapons are visible in the distance.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Khandallah, 2025
#photography #monochrome #nz
Black-and-white close-up photograph of a wooden fence with the word “Hi”, a smiley face, and two cartoon ducks scratched lightly into the weathered surface.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Christchurch, 2019
#hipstamatic #photography #christchurch #nz #AntonyGormley
Oversaturated photograph of Antony Gormley’s sculpture “Stay” looking pensive in Christchurch’s Avon river.
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Tawa, 2025
#photography #monochrome #ruins #nz
Black-and-white photograph of a ln abandoned industrial building surrounded by low hills scrubby with nee growth after heavy logging.
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Tawa, 2025
#photography #vintage #ruins #haunted #nz
Slightly oversaturated photograph of a decaying abandoned industrial building with faded paint on its corrugated tin sheeting, surrounded by low hills stripped bare by logging.
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Auckland CBD, 2025
#monochrome #photography #nz #ruins
Black-and-white photograph of urban wastground with puddled water reflecting the graffiti-covered buildings surrounding it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Titahi Bay, 2023
#photography #porirua #affirmation
Slightly oversaturated photograph of a short, rough concrete pillar in native bush with graffiti in white reading, “JUST KNOW U HAVE THE STRENGTH TO GET THROUGH ANYTHING”, in block capitals. Somehow, this is less cringey woo than it should be.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Christchurch, 2018
#vintage #ruins #earthquake #haunted #photography
Washed-out photograph of a wooden door in a brick building with graffiti of a cartoonish, Pac-Mac style ghost, helpfully labelled “GHOST” in block capitals. The building itself was a half-destroyed relic of the earthquakes that I suspect has long been demolished.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Newtown, 2025
#photography #nz #aotearoa #monochrome
Black-and-white photograph of a wooden octagonal turret, part of an unusual house along a typical inner-suburban street, against a sky threatening rain.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Miramar, 2022
#photography #monochrome #nz
Black-and-white photograph of a miniature science-fiction cityscape, which was used for a revival of the children’s television show “Thunderbirds”, if memory serves.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Auckland, 2025
#photography #streetart
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of chalked graffiti on a plain gray wall asking the question “if my pillows are blankets, what are my blankets?” and featuring a drawing of a bed and several Zs. This is in an area with lots of rough sleepers, thanks to this government’s murderous “austerity” policies.
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Newtown, 2025
Reposting this because of new research showing that these two pokokōhua have killed hundreds of thousands of poor black and brown people.

So glad our shitheel PM posed with one of them last week. #nzpol #photography #graffiti
Unprocessed iPhone photograph of red stenciled graffiti on a white plywood wall reading “WE SAID NEVER AGAIN”, flanked by pictures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the latter making a Nazi salute.
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM