Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer

Leslie Adkin (1888–1964)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Toi Art galleries, L 4

27 June 2025 – February 2027

Sleeping beauties on sand dunes, 1 January 1927, Ōtaki, by Leslie Adkin. Te Papa (A.008559)

Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a Levin farmer, photographer, geologist, ethnologist and explorer, a gifted amateur and renaissance man, of sorts, who used photography to document his scholarly interests, farming activities and family life. His much loved and exceptionally beautiful photographs taken between 1900 and the 1930s are one of the highlights of Te Papa’s historical photography collection.