North & South

A HIGH-SKATES GAME

When Philippa O’Brien began a project to document roller derby, she spent hours driving around Wellington looking for the perfect hidden corners to stage her street photography.

One night, O’Brien collected a skater known as “Meat Train” for a shoot in Island Bay. An unapologetically raw and powerful woman,

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