One photo, captured in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacres, brought it all together, tying New Zealand’s bloody beginning with its dark present. A Maori man, with a traditional face tattoo and eyes closed in mourning, locked noses with a Muslim man in the indigenous tradition called the hongi. The Muslim man, his baseball cap tilted back, stared ahead as if piercing the face of the Maori man who knew his pain, as if he had seen it before.

SEED: The hongi photo bridging a nation's colonial history and current cultural trauma is a powerful visual storytelling example worth developing into an essay.

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