17 October to 04 December
Self-led activity.

Photography assignment: What do the tuna see?

collage of images of water
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Example by Skye Lunson-Storey for the photography assignment: What do the tuna see?

Assignment Brief

Alongside our exhibition for Māori Camera Club, our recent artist-in-residence for the Whakamanu exchange, Skye Lunson-Storey, invites participants to undertake a self-led photography assignment.

Drawing on Skye’s ongoing artistic research in climate change, urban infrastructure, site-responsive approaches, and Indigenous futurisms, participants are invited to photograph from a non-human perspective. What might it mean to look beyond ourselves and consider the way other beings and elements might experience or witness the world around us?

What do the tuna see? asks participants, through the medium of photography, to consider ideas of collaboration and conversations around Te Tai Ao. It asks us to address the environment from alternative positions.

Tools needed
- A camera phone/ analogue camera/ digital camera

Prompts to think with…
Te Hau - Te Kore - Te Wā - Te Ātea - Te Hihiri - Whenua - Taniwha - Tamanuiterā - Ranginui - Papatūānuku - What do the tuna and manu see? - Tāne Mahuta

Assignment Hand-in
For the assignment, participants are asked to limit their snaps to 5 key moments. Participants have the option to combine their images into a single work, like the example of Skye’s above, or make a carousel of the 5 images.

If you’d like to share via Instagram some of your snaps from the assignment with Skye and the photographic community, tag @physicsroom and @uku_rangi with the hashtag #MCCmap. The self-led photography assignment will run for the duration of the Māori Camera Club exhibition at The Physics Room 17 October - 04 December, 2026. 

Skye Lunson-Storey (Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Pākehā) is an early-career artist, writer, and editor based in Tauranga Moana. Alongside their artistic practice, Skye’s interest in interdisciplinary knowledge is deepened through their work as a university notetaker for classes such as architecture, engineering, law, and biodiversity. Currently, they are the Arts, Culture & Te Ao Māori Editor for AUT’S Debate Magazine. They also work under the name Uku Rangi as part of their ongoing ceramic practice.