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| Greg Semu "Too many people take photographs. They take and they don't give back. I'm just not comfortable with that. For me it is better to give than to receive. The theme that runs strongly through my work is cultural displacement, colonial impact on indigenous cultures, particularly Pacific Islands', and religious Christian iconography's mutation of tribal and so-called primitive icons." Greg Semu |
Greg Semu, 24, is a New Zealand Samoan photographer who grew up in Auckland and is now living in Sydney, Australia. His work includes fashion, magazine spreads and music videos. Semu's work shows the importance of identity and self portrait. His first big time creations being a series of photographs being silver gelatine created in 1995 of his naked body covered in Samoan Tatau titles Self-portrait with Pe'a, Basque Road, Newton Gully. This series of photographs got him his first solo exhibition titled O le Tatau Samoa, The Tattoo Art of Samoa at the Auckland Art Gallery.
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