Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Niki Boon and Childhood in the Raw

“I grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand,” writes photographer Niki Boon, “with a childhood barefoot, wild and free.” To be a child during this pandemic is to be suddenly thrust into an especially confusing and restrictive routine but the sense of childhood freedom and imagination doesn’t necessarily require physical space to run wild. While Boon’s photographs capture a truly wild and free childhood they also embody a spirit that is inherent in children everywhere. “In part,” says Boon, “my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exist so strongly in my mind.”