Amanda Billing may have spent 10 years acting in our most popular soap Shortland Street, but underneath there was always a photographer lurking.
“The first time I remember taking pictures consciously was at the end of Form Two, when I had a little Kodak Instamatic,” she explains. “At the end of the year, I tried to take photos of my favourite teachers.”
The results were disappointing as it was a cloudy day in December, but there was one of Mr Smart.
“He had quite thick glasses and wore walk shorts with walk socks,” she recalls. “This was when you could smoke on the school grounds.
So I got a picture of him in the staffroom sitting on one of those classic wire seats with the blue fabric and wooden handles. He’s basically just sitting there, one hand holding a Arcorac glass mug of tea and
