Hill, RodrigoRoa, Tom2025-04-152025-04-152024Hill, R., & Roa, T. (2024, October 22). Photography within te ao Māori: Decolonising the photographic lens [Conference item]. Te Pūnaha Matatini Annual Hui Conference, The Pā -University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17326Ūkaipō: Wānanga, places of origin and photographic representation. Ūkaipō recognises the cultural, emotional, and spiritual along with the physical ties a Māori has with their place of origin, even if it is not their place of birth, emphasising grounded forms of connection between people and place and subsequent understandings of places and spaces. Hence the importance today of people asserting their pēpeha, tohu whenua landmarks with which they most strongly identify, consolidating their ‘birth of place’ or ‘place of birth’.This is a PowerPoint presentation from Te Pūnaha Matatini Annual Hui Conference. © The authors 2024.Conference Contribution