New Zealand

My second home, the motherland of my Mother, my Grandmother. 

 "....The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” 

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996.

41° 00’ S, 174° 00’ E

How does one begin to describe New Zealand, when it feels like home? Where it is where you find your mothers spirit, where your soul feels lighter, where the nature is so pristine, so grand, so unfathomably beautiful that you don’t feel like you have ever truly captured it. 

A part of my heart lives there. Forever.

Images captured over multiple sojourns, 2014 - 2019. Images of me by Anne Carolien Köhler.