Nelson City Council

The Nelson Photo News project has been awarded a grant from Digital New Zealand (Digital NZ) to help digitise The Photo News, a magazine that covered life in Nelson in the 1960s and 1970s.

The first run of the Nelson Photo News is a rare and unique photo record of life in Nelson in the early 1960s/70s. It captures a time of rapid social and cultural change. The photos offer a rare glimpse into community life and include lively commentary.

"New Zealand is a small place with big ideas, and we need to keep digitising New Zealand content so we can stay connected to our own stories, knowledge and culture" says Sue Sutherland, Director National Digital Library.

Digital New Zealand, led by the National Library of New Zealand, is a publicly-funded initiative that makes New Zealand content from the community, government, and the private sector easier to find, share and use.

The Nelson Photo News Digitisation is a project of the Friends of the Nelson Library Microfilm Committee, which has been fundraising for the project for a number of years, and includes representatives from the Nelson Public Libraries and The Nelson Provincial Museum.

Both the Nelson Public Libraries and The Nelson Provincial Museum hold editions of the Nelson Photo News and in addition the Museum also holds original images from the early run of the magazine.