An extraordinary and unique installation of 80 photographs of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga taken in 1884. Alfred Burton, of the noted Dunedin photography firm Burton Bros, was a passenger on the USS Wairarapa for the Union Steam Ship Company’s first winter tourist excursion into the Pacific. This highly charged and emotional exhibition will take the viewer back to a time when New Zealand had an expansionist eye on the Pacific. Scrutinised by some of today’s leading Pacific writers, these striking images have never before been shown in New Zealand. Developed in partnership with Te Papa and supported by imagelab.