Wayne Barrar is an Associate Professor at the School of Art at Massey University, Wellington. His photography has been widely exhibited and published internationally since the 1980s. Publications include the monographic books – Shifting Nature, University of Otago Press 2001, An Expanding Subterra, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2010, and Torbay tī kōuka: A New Zealand tree in the English Riviera, University of Plymouth Press 2011.