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Six ways of looking at a photographer, Punaruku. (Photo: Peter Blanc) CHILDREN The Maori child is always the photographer's favourite subject, and each time for a different reason. Sometimes it is just the beauty of a child, sometimes the free expression of a mood, joyful or serious; while adults mask their moods more or less, it is usually possible to read a child's face. It is certainly easy to read the faces of the children we have pictured here, in four quite different situations. Concentration, Paparori. (Photo; Merv Holland)