For the first time, a camera goes deep inside the sacred space of the All
Black camp – revealing the highs and the lows, the pain and the passion, the
commitment and the courage of New Zealand's iconic sporting team.
Best-selling photojournalist Nick Danziger and writer James Kerr have been
granted unprecedented access to the All Black environment as the team builds
towards the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The result is a landmark publishing event
that looks at the men of the All Blacks and the land that they come from –
focussing on how New Zealand has shaped its national team, and how its national
team has helped shaped New Zealand. Intimate, beautiful and revealing, Mana is
an historic event in New Zealand publishing and, importantly, a chance for those
who love rugby and Aotearoa to give something back: all profits from the Mana
Project will go to Kids Can Stand Tall, official charity partner of the All
Blacks, to provide school lunches, raincoats and shoes for the most
disadvantaged of Kiwi kids – ‘because no New Zealand child should be left
out in the cold’.
Author Bio
Nick Danziger is one of the world's great photographers. He has won several
prestigious awards for his photography including, in 2004, the World Press Photo
1st Prize in the Single Portrait Award for his ‘mirror’ image of Prime
Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush. In June 1991, his documentary
video film ‘War, Lives and Videotape’, based on the children abandoned in
Marastoon mental asylum in Kabul, won the prestigious Prix Italia for Best
Television Documentary. In 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the
Royal Photographic Society, and he is holder of the Royal Geographical
Society's Ness Award in recognition of raising public understanding of
contemporary social, political and environmental issues through documentary
films and photography. In 1996 he was nominated for Journalist of The Year by
the Royal Television Society. Nick has spent much of the last 25 years
photographing the world most dispossessed and disadvantaged.