Child of Nature

With the simplest of equipment in hand, Niki Boon guides us into her idyllic world through a classic photographic trope: handheld black and white images shot in either overcast light or late in the day, when time slips into the hour between the dog and the wolf.

Niki Boon’s photography feels like a feral cat ready to pounce. Holed up with her family on a ten-acre farm with a pond in rural New Zealand, she’s free to root around in the muck and mud with her kids and compose masterpieces. With her shutter finge...

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