Greetings from Maoriland, past and present

A New Zealand photographer snuck his country's history into a series of old postcards

Maoriland
(Image credit: (Murray Lloyd))

Postcards are not the oft-sent greeting they once were. Those quaint travel snapshots have been rendered a special, rare event thanks to text messages, Instagrams, and snapchats.

Which is why New Zealand photographer Murray Lloyd decided to capitalize on the relative rarity of postcards, turning them into a powerful commentary on the country's fraught land ownership history.

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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.