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dc.title: A Broken Window in a Broken City
dc.description: A digitally manipulated image of a broken window on Spicer House. The photographer comments, "One of the office blocks in Christchurch City, New Zealand. As the window has not been fixed I am presuming that this building will be slowly demolished at a later date".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 11:08pm 1st February 2012
Tags: red stickered, Fitzgearald Avenue, damaged, broken, letterbox, overgrown, wall

dc.title: The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side
dc.description: A digitally manipulated photograph looking through a broken window into a darkened room. Through windows opposite, an overgrown garden can be seen. The photographer comments, "This is a restaurant that was closed down and without any help the garden at the back has flourished".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 12:06am 4th August 2012
Tags: broken, smashed, window, glass, overgrown, trees

dc.title: Down and Out
dc.description: A digitally manipulated photograph of a letterbox lying on the ground in front of a red-stickered house. The photographer comments, "An abandoned red stickered house just outside the four avenues that surround Christchurch CBD. The letterbox came down when the wall it was attached to collapsed. The occupants would have had strict instructions to stay out as the property is too dangerous to enter in case there is another earthquake or big aftershock".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 1:26am 1st February 2012
Tags: red stickered, Fitzgearald Avenue, damaged, broken, letterbox, overgrown, wall

dc.title: BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0081
dc.description: A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "It is hard to tell what is vertical at this house in Tasman Place. Many of the houses in the area have slumped".
Date: 1:49am 12th December 2011
Tags: RedZoneApp, overgrown garden, Tasman Place, abandoned home

dc.title: The House Gate
dc.description: Warning tape on the gate of a residential property near Cranmer Square. The photographer comments, "The yellow tape was put on the gate to warn property [owners] that the house beyond was unsafe. Now there is no house, but by the cobwebs on the handle the tape is doing a great job".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 11:10pm 7th April 2012
Tags: 22 February 2011, damaged, broken, yellow tape, keep out, warning, gate, metal, iron, garden, cobweb, overgrown

dc.title: BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0080
dc.description: A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Unkept gardens have become the norm in Tasman Place, where once they used to be beautifully cared for".
Date: 1:48am 12th December 2011
Tags: RedZoneApp, overgrown garden, Tasman Place, abandoned home

dc.title: The Housing Slump
dc.description: Two images of a house, taken before and after the earthquakes. In the after photograph the chimneys are gone, a column supporting the car port has partly collapsed, windows are broken, and the previously neat lawn and driveway are overgrown. The photographer comments, "This was a house that I was selling up to the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch. It was on Avonside Drive, which was an area that has been badly hit in every earthquake that has hit the area. In the September quake parts of the house moved in different directions and one of the upstairs doors had to be smashed open to release one of the sons from his bedroom. This occurred in the dark with numerous aftershocks shaking the house. Liquefaction poured up through the floor and flowed down the drive. Everyone got out OK, but soon after the house was red stickered meaning it was dangerous to enter. The house was looted many times even though there was constant police patrols. When the most violent earthquake occurred on 22 February 2012 both the tall heavy chimneys came crashing through into the living areas. Subsequent earthquakes and aftershocks have caused one of the brick fence pillars to fall and the front garage pillar to break up and twist. The family's troubles did not end there. They moved into the home of one of their parents and this mansion of a home was so badly affected by the February earthquake that no one could enter to collect any of their or their parents' belongings. They now own a new home, which they are fond of except when the ground shakes yet again. There has been to date 10,712 earthquakes and aftershocks since 4 September 2010".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 11:28am 8th October 2011
Tags: RedZoneApp, Avonside Drive, Wainoni, Avondale, collapse, collapsed, brick, broken, shaken, damaged, chimney, fallen, pillar, 4 September 2010, overgrown, 22 February 2011

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