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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.