Runaway

A word about the work

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Nick Danzinger was invited to follow and share the life of the All Blacks for a five-week period in autumn 2010, at the request of the New Zealand Federation, who wanted to leave its mark, create a heritage. The Federation didn’t choose a New Zealand photographer, or even a rugby specialist, wanting to bring something different. They chose Nick Danziger, with his incredible capacity for portraying individuals, their lives and stories. Accompanied by journalist James Kerr, Nick didn’t content himself with just following the team. Carried by his unstoppable curiosity, he also traveled the country to see rugby schools with their rough and deep landscapes. The body of work became « Mana », an incredible reportage which gave birth to a book. A witness account for years to come. James Kerr wrote in the forward that a radical change had taken place in New Zealand over the past twenty years. A kind of rediscovery and rebirth of a unique cultural identity. It could be said, he wrote, that the Maoris had started to « recolonise » New Zealand. Not in the true sense of the word, but in the transmission to « Pakehas », the whites, of the importance of the soul of this land, of the importance of evoking ancestors and the spirit of the land which, even more than the game itself, represented them all. This is particularly strong and noticeable in the All Blacks, more so and faster than in the civil society, because this harmony, this solidarity, this desire to be together is induced by this sport first and foremost.
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