Elements of Love

Created by Chantelle Taljaard, Emily Ly, Jason Nguyen and Yvette Orosa.

Students use love letters from the war years to recreate the story of Sadie Arbuckle and Harry Mason. This story is told through a series of photos taken at Auckland War Memorial Museum by students dressed in costumes of the period.

“The ramifications of war are not only seen in the battlefield, or in the soldiers that are fighting them, but also in the people who are left behind … Harry and Sadie’s story was just one of these countless goodbye’s that ended with grief during World War One.”