Peter Bush Collection News


As Project Manager for the Peter Bush Collection Project, I will be adding news to this webpage to cover the great work our team completed. It is dedicated to be an aggregator of the latest news, interviews and information about the Peter Bush Collection from a multitude of sources.

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Closeup of All Black Dan Carter

Stuff: Long-term project to preserve Peter Bush photo collection

Te Manawa held a fundraising auction last week to raise money needed to continue digitising, cataloguing and exhibiting the photos.


Māori land march in front of the Beehive, Wellignton

RNZ: A photographic legacy

The family of the late and legendary photojournalist Peter Bush has donated 300,000 of his photographs to the New Zealand Rugby Museum in Palmerston North. Peter’s daughter Rachel joins Jesse to talk about the collection and what happens next.


Closeup of All Black Dan Carter

NZ Herald: All Blacks legend Dan Carter lends support to Peter Bush charity auction In Palmerston North

All Blacks legend Dan Carter has donated a signed copy of his book 1598 for the Peter Bush charity auction evening in Palmerson North on August 8.


Colin Meads handling the rugby ball during a 1971 match.

Manawatu Guardian: Photos by New Zealand rugby photographer Peter Bush auctioned to help digitise collection

As a rugby photo-journalist Bush built up a massive archive of historically important sporting and cultural images since his first assignment as news photographer for New Zealand Herald in 1949.


Juliet Galuszka show items from the Peter Bush Collection in the archives of Te Manawa

Stuff: Sifting through the gold in Peter Bush’s collection

In a treasure trove of more than 300,000 images taken by legendary photographer Peter Bush, there are countless images of New Zealand’s sporting and cultural history.