Sara McIntyre - Observations of a Rural Nurse

Sara McIntyre is a District Nurse and photographer in the King Country, New Zealand. She has been coming to the area since her family first arrived for a fishing trip at Kakahi about 1960. Four years ago McIntyre left neonatal intensive care nursing in Wellington, to live and work at the site of her childhood holidays. Her photographic exploration takes in the places and inhabitants of Kakahi and the sparsely populated surrounding towns; Manunui, Ohura, Ongarue, Piriaka, Owhango, Waimiha and Taumaranui. McIntyre has become familiar with her subjects in a personal and professional capacity and her observations have a familial prehistory. In 1972, her father, the well known New Zealand painter, Peter McIntyre, published Kakahi New Zealand, an account of a place he described as 'woven into the fabric of my family life.'

Sarah McIntyre, Taumaranui Tapestry, 2016