This work was part of my PhD with creative practice research (2015-2019) and explored how photography and photographic practices can be used as a way to understand and make places. The work is focused on the Waikato River located in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Here the Waikato River is perceived as a place where multiple practices and discourses entangle forming a diverse set of dynamic and intersecting meanings. the images in this sequence were informed by both Indigenous Māori and Western perspectives.