The photographic collections at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum, hold many of the surviving images from this era, including images by Thomas Andrew, Leslie Adkin, James Bragge, Leslie Hinge and Spencer Digby in addition to archives of the Burton Brothers, Alfred James Tattersall and John McGarrigle's American Photographic Company.
The Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington also hosts a significant catalogue of historic images, many of which can be viewed online and browsed by location, name, and more.
The seminal development history of New Zealand photography was written by medical photographer and historian Hardwicke Knight in 1971.
George D. Valentine was a Scottish photographer, who relocated to New Zealand due to his health, and documented much of the country at a time of great transition – his images of the Pink and White Terraces, taken in 1885, show scenes of incredible beauty that were buried less than a year later by 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Contemporary New Zealand photographers include Laurence Aberhart, Mark Adams, Brian Brake, Ben Cauchi, Marti Friedlander,[3] Anne Geddes, Anne Noble,[4] Fiona Pardington,[5] Patrick Reynolds,[6] Yvonne Todd,[7] Christine Webster, Rita Dibert, Yvonne Westra and Ans Westra.