Authors

For more than 25 years Alan Gibson has drawn on his passion for storytelling working as a photojournalist both in NZ and the UK. Alan spent most of that time with The New Zealand Herald covering the central North Island, allowing him to record life in the landscapes and communities he loved.

Colin Gibson, a former Professor of English at the University of Otago, has been involved with music from his childhood. The Mornington Methodist Church in Dunedin has been his spiritual home for more than 80 years. He has been the church’s Choir Director, organist, and pianist for the last 60 years. In 1972 he took a national prize with his now famous hymn, He Came Singing Love, and he has been busy ever since, writing hymn texts and composing hymn settings for his own hymns as well as for many other New Zealand and international hymnwriters. He has led workshops and lecture series on hymn-related topics throughout New Zealand and in Australia, America, England, Japan and the Philippines. A founding member of the New Zealand Hymn Book Trust and its editorial group, in 1981 he established at the Dunedin Public Library a national research collection of hymn books and study material. In 2002 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and music. Colin is married to Jeanette, a former teacher of the deaf. They have three professional children.

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Paul C Gilbert (1954-2019) started taking photographs as a young boy via family influences. Early projects were developed as documentary street photography in the fine arts tradition when he was a founder member of PhotoForum NZ in 1973. He was employed as a photographer at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and then at the Auckland City Art Gallery in the 1970s. He left employment to pursue the project, 'Road People of Aotearoa' in 1978. Later, as an independent photographer, he mainly specialised in documenting maritime heritage, vessels and history. He was the technical instructor of photography at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland from 1990 to 2008.

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Olivia Aroha Giles has a BA in Applied Arts, Art and Design and an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Applied Arts in Creative Writing. She is also undertaking a master's in education about neurodiverse learning challenges. She is a tutor on the New Zealand Certificate in Skills for Living for Supported Learners, teaching life skills for supported learners. Olivia is an avid reader and writer. She writes novels and children's books that reflect contemporary Maori life, and she has previously published children's stories, poetry, and a fiction trilogy.