Raul (he/him)

Black-and-white photograph of a bare LED bulb hanging in front of a whitewashed brick wall.

Tāmaki Makaurau, 2026
#monochrome #photography #stilllife #brick

Slightly overcrankes colour photograph of a green utility box along a suburban footpath with bright-pink graffiti reading “PUBERTY BLOCKERS SAVE LIVES”.

The other face of the same box, with “BLOCK THE BAN” painted in a lovely, messy stencil.

Northlands, 2026
Goddamn right they do.
#photography #transrights #grafitti #vintage #protecttranskids #nzpol

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There’s surveys online for feedback on the curriculum that anyone call fill out. The Government may just ignore “this is evil” comments, but at least they’ll be on the public record.

Black-and-white photograph of a tiny 19th-century drover’s hut at the base of a row of foothills, surrounded by mature trees and watched over by wind-swept clouds.

Near Lawrence, 2016
#monochrome #photography #hipstamatic #otago #nz

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Scan of a black-and-white 35mm print showing the wall of an urban alleyway lined with rubbish bags, presided over by a stencil showing two people kissing in silhouette.

Brussels, 2002
#monochrome #35mm #photography #streetart

That would make the path from the page to the walls of a WWI-era ruin even more obscure/fascinating.

Black-and -white photograph of a toy fairy outside a mushroom-shaped house attached to the side of a tree, part of a large fairy garden along a bush track.

Miramar,2026
#monochrome #photography #fae #fairy #garden

Not about this strip, but I stumbled upon what looks to be some very Nancy-coded graffiti in the remains of an old military fort in the suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand yesterday.

Unprocessed iPhone photograph of some extremely wholesome graffiti of a frog and a purple bear holding hands amongst layers of old tags, etc.

Fort Ballance, 2026
Timeline cleanse #streetart #wholesome #photography

Yet more receipts. Restricting best-practice healthcare for trans kids KILLS TRANS KIDS. There is so much evidence for this now that we can only think that people enacting or supporting bans on care WANT trans kids to die. This goes for parents, too. Fix your hearts and minds or become death. #nzpol

Scan of a 35mm print of stenciled graffiti on a wall of rough concrete blocks, showing an image of the Cheshire Cat and the words “smile you fuckers”. One of my all-time favourite pieces of street art.

Dunedin, circa 2004
After this was painted over, someone painted “Hey, graffiti guy, bring back the cat” on the same wall. Amen.
#streetart #photography #monochrome #cheshirecat
#dunners

There is a real comfort and petty schadenfreude in the fact that I am happier skimping to pay school fees and working reasonable hours at a boring job than any of these incurious shitheads will ever be. In Musk’s case, I will always know my trans daughter loves me, so am an infinitely better person.

Blue colour-washed photograph of the great space-rock band Space Team Electra on stage, probably at the Bluebird Theatre, in the early 2000s.

Denver, USA, circa 2003
#photography #spaceteamelectra #monochrome

Black-and-white photograph of a mostly destroyed Brutalist building on a suburban hill.

Karori, 2026
#photography #monochrome #nz #rnifilms

Scan of a 35mm print of a woman in a baseball cap walking by a white roughcast wall with a narrow doorway and stencilled graffiti of a man running away from the viewer.

Dunedin, circa 2004
#monochrome #35mm #dunners #streetart #photography

Scan of a 35mm print of a brick wall with a mural of a thoughtful bald man - perhaps he is praying - and the word “Silencio”, partially obscured by two ordinary cars.

Somewhere in Spain, 2002
#monochrome #photography #streetart #35mm

“She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” is weirdly great.

Black-and-white photograph looking down into a round concrete pit with the remains of the fittings for a large artillery canon. A trench cut into the floor is giving analog clock.

Wright’s Hill, 2026
#photography #monochrome #nz #ruins

Black-and-white photograph of a skeletal rectangular frame made from driftwood on a wide sandy beach, with Mana Island on the horizon, under a sky studded with wind-swept clouds.

Titahi Bay, 2026
#monochrome #photography #nz

Unprocessed iPhone photograph of a rugged coastline with am old lighthouse isolated under bruised, threatening autumn skies.

Taiaroa Head, 2021
Damn, Dunedin has a special line in dark and brooding, ae?
#photography #landscape #otago #lighthouse

#nzpol

We’re doing backdoor deals with an openly fascist government? I’d appeal to the decency of the people working on this, but they don’t have any; we know the sorts of shit those minerals are going to be used to do, the tools and weapons they are going to build, and so does everyone making this deal.

Oversaturated photograph of a stand of native trees in a field, backlit by a setting sun partially obscured by clouds.

Whiteman’s Valley, 2026
#photography #vintage #rnifilms #nz

A creeping fear of irrelevance? Actually, never mind.

It’s perfectly sane; they just want to have a lab leak so they can prove that Covid was leaked from a lab.

Black-and white photograph of angular urban buildings viewed from below in a narrow alleyway, all under a flat, overcast sky.

Te Aro, 2026
#monochrome #photography #urbanism #nz #wellington

Oversaturated photograph of a modern suburban church in warm colours, fronted by two palm trees that give the joint a distinctively Polynesian vibe, never mind the weather.

Upper Hutt, 2026
#photography #vintage #nz #wellington