Lloyd Godman

Godman left school aged 15 to be an electrical apprentice at the Evening Star, a local newspaper in Dunedin (later bought by and merged with the Otago Daily Times), where he was introduced to photography.

[citation needed] After this time he photographed touring rock bands by push processing colour film, and took images of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin,[3] Black Sabbath and Joe Cocker.

This project focused on the imminent destruction of the wild rapids of the Clutha River that would become Lake Dunstan once the controversial Clyde Dam was complete.

The work included large photo-murals over 6 metres long, with some prints gold-toned from gold extracted from the Clutha River, which were first exhibited at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 1984.

This project gained sufficient attention that “a group called Friends of Blackhead was formed to lead a protest against the wholesale quarrying of the area,”[8] and was successful in obtaining a covenant in protecting part of the headland.

"In his own determined way for over thirty years, Godman has pondered and acted upon questions of how aesthetics might be involved in creating sustainable solutions to environmental problems.