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WATCH: Award-winning photographer Petra Leary captures a bird's eye view of Auckland

Leary won Best Photographer at the MPA magazine awards

WATCH: Award-winning photographer Petra Leary captures a bird's eye view of Auckland

Sep 11, 2019 Art

Photographer Petra Leary won Best Photographer at the 2019 Webstar Magazine Media Awards for her bird’s eye shots of Auckland, featured in the summer issue of Metro. Congratulations Petra!

As part of the 2019 Loading Docs collection, director Morgan Albrecht made the following short documentary on Petra and her work, and how she creates her iconic bird’s eye shots, with the help of her skateboard, drone and her dog, Kodak.


Bird’s Eye
is part of the 2019 Loading Docs collection. The rest of the short documentaries can be viewed online here.

Follow Petra on Instgram: @petraleary

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