Made at the bars of the Hotel Kiwi from the archives of three makers who each, in their own way, contributed to the development of early contemporary art photography in New Zealand. The hotel stood at the corner of Wellesley and Symonds Streets in Auckland, close to the University and the Elam School of Fine Arts.

Described in The Pub-Goer's Guidebook of 1966 as “built almost entirely of formica and rubberised floor tiles, with the whole place giving out a general lavatorial atmosphere, it surely represents all that a pub should not be. The only feature that is at all remarkable — and the only reason for giving it half an award — are the barmen. They are possibly the best we encountered anywhere.”