Sean Gillespie: Documentating Wellington’s Suburbs

Sean is a Wellington based freelance writer, photojournalist and videographer. His LinkedIn profile suggests an extremely wide range of roles, including working in the New Zealand parliament and US Department of State.

He is a keen Wellingtonian who is not bothered by the slight breezes we have down here. In fact he has headed out into cyclones to record the city in action, with the images appearing on the Spinoff website (https://thespinoff.co.nz/author/sean-gillespie/).

In 2014 he decided he would explore the suburbs of Wellington to see if he could capture images that reflected what was unique about them. When he started he did not realPhotoerise that he would find that there were 57 separate suburbs!

By using references to this project Sean is going to demonstrate that you don’t need to venture to overseas locations to create a body of work.