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About Stopover
Product Description Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d’etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. Stopover is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew’s narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life Review "Connew's work combines haunting images with a text that is poetic, elegant, and moving in its clarity. There is a power and persuasion to his work that even the most scholarly and responsible analyses cannot match.""The social commentary embedded in these visual images and in the text, which provides fitting local and historical context for the photographs, would be of great interest to those working in South Asian and Indian diaspora studies, Pacific studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, visual anthropology, political science, and development sociology." From the Back Cover "Connew's work combines haunting images with a text that is poetic, elegant, and moving in its clarity. There is a power and persuasion to his work that even the most scholarly and responsible analyses cannot match." --David Hanlon, University of Hawai`i "The social commentary embedded in these visual images and in the text, which provides fitting local and historical context for the photographs, would be of great interest to those working in South Asian and Indian diaspora studies, Pacific studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, visual anthropology, political science, and development sociology." --Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Cornell University About the Author Bruce Connew was born in Auckland in 1949. He studied photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in Guildford, England. Since 1976, he has travelled widely, undertaking documentary photography projects around the world. Connew's work is characterized by a driving interest in social issues, particularly conflict, dissent, emancipation and struggle. Connew currently lives and works in Wellington.
