"Thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining short documentary ✯✯✯✯"

James Croot - STUFF to Watch

"What draws you into the documentary Jos is the pictures of New Zealand being born before our eyes – the places, the people, the change from the posed colonial portraits to contemporary snapshots"

Simon Morris - RNZ, At the Movies (listen here)

For nearly 100 years the name Jos Divis was missing from histories of New Zealand photography. Now a wrong is being righted.

Some call him the ‘inventor of the selfie’. A street photographer ahead of his time he pioneered techniques to capture images of ordinary people and their working lives in a way no-one else could.

Imprisoned for his beliefs, he lived his last years alone in the ghost town he helped bring to life, his family believing him dead.   

JOS is a journey of discovery following a historian, a photographer and a museum curator all working to give Jos Divis’ the recognition he deserves.

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46 mins. Suitable for all audiences.

A film by Dave Kwant and Robyn Janes