“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.”
Niki Boon Wild and Free Grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand, with a childhood barefoot, wild and free. In part my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exi…
Grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand, with a childhood barefoot, wild and free. In part my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exist so strongly in my mind. Today we live on a small block of land where I strive to replicate this childhood for my children… it is here in our wild and wonderful surroundings that I endeavor to tell their story .. Life as it is.
“My memories are of running barefoot, building tree huts, and raiding our veggie garden,” says New Zealand-based Niki Boon of her early years coming of age on her parents’ farm. Now a mother herself, she makes her home along the a rolling ten acres of buc
“My memories are of running barefoot, building tree huts, and raiding our veggie garden,” says New Zealand-based Niki Boon of her early years coming of age on her parents’ farm. Now a mother herself, she makes her home along the a rolling ten acres of bucolic hinterland, through which her children dance in tandem with the steady flow of nearby rivers.
