New Zealand gallery hunts for thousands of people captured by famed photographer Ans Westra

Campaign under way to identify subjects of images shot in 1970s and 1980s by Westra, one of New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographers

When a black-and-white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a patterned sofa outside an old weatherboard house appeared on a billboard in central Wellington recently, Arthur Uruamo’s phone lit up.

“A lot of people have rung me about that photo,” Uruamo tells the Guardian.

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