The view from the deck of our home in the Aro Valley where we'll be spending much of the next month or more

A hut being constructed at the entrance to the Wellington Hospital Emergency Department, to serve as a screening point for COVID-19 patients

My grandfather, Aleksejs Ulachovičs, in the uniform of the Latvian National Army, in a photograph attached to an identity certificate issued in 1925.

Skārņu iela, in Rīga's Old City. On the right is St John's church, constructed between the 13th and 19th centuries.

Rīga's Freedom Monument, May 2017

Prisoners' exercise yard at Rīga's 'Corner House,' headquarters of the KGB during the Soviet Occupation, 1944 – 1991

'The Earth Will Grieve for Us for a Long Time,' photographic exhibition in the courtyard of the 'Corner House' in Rīga, July 2016

Soldiers of the Latvian National Army, ca. 1920, with my grandfather, Aleksejs Ulachovičs, seated front left

The photograph album I began putting together as a teenager, with a photograph of my grandmother, Tatjana, taken in Rīga in the 1940s. Behind it are the few photos of her family that she saved.

Foyer of the Latvian State Historical Archives in Rīga.

My mother Irena examing her father's passport at the Latvian State Historical Archives in Rīga, with the genealogist Antra Celmins, 2017

My grandfather Aleksejs Ulachovičs' identity certificate, in the Latvian State Historical Archives in Rīga

Photograph of my grandfather, Aleksejs Ulachovičs, in his identity certificate

Photograph of my great-grandmother, Praskovja Ulachovičs, in her identity certificate.

Registry Office, Rīga, 2017.

My mother Irena at the railway station of the beach resort of Jūrmala, where she spent summer holidays as a young child, 2017.

Jēkabs Šķērstēns (1890 – 1940), Stained glass after a folk song motif, Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Rīga

My mother, Irena, walking on the beach at Kape Kolka during our trip to Latvia, 2017

Rīga's Freedom Monument.

Kodak Instamatic 28 Camera

Album Page: Christmas '73

Album page: 'January '74. View. Albany.'

Kodak Envelopes with Processed Film

126 Negatives

Christmas '73: Reprinted 2017

Self Portrait 1974—2017

High Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Département de la Somme, France

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Département de la Somme, France

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, France. The former grave of the New Zealand soldier now at rest in the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial in Wellington.

Driving across the Lindis Pass

Old typewriter - $95

Northbrook Colonial Museum, Rangiora, near Christchurch

An Underwood portable at the Northbrook Colonial Museum

Telephones and a typewriter at the Northbrook Colonial Museum

Rangiora Sales - Licensed Second Hand Dealers

Remington Portable NC63015 - October 1926

Remington Portable

The upper reaches of Lake Wanaka