Rob Wright is without
peer as a documenter of life in the British Crown Colony of Fiji
during the third quarter of the Twentieth Century, indeed he is
arguably the foremost photographer working in the Pacific Islands
during that period. There is hardly a publication on any aspect
of Fiji's life or geography at that time that does not contain
images he produced in his capacity as Official Government Photographer
between the early 1940s and 1969. Many of these, particularly
those in official publications, are unacknowledged as his, but
are unmistakable by virtue of their sheer quality, both technical
and aesthetic. The photographs on this site were taken by Rob
during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the prints used here
were a gift to my father David ("Pinch") Ewins, a friend
of Rob's since childhood, on our departure from Fiji in 1957.
