page_title: Peter Bush (photographer)
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Bush (photographer)
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Bush, after his investiture as CNZM, for services to photography, on 12 April 2011
context_page_description: Peter George Bush CNZM QSM is a New Zealand photographer and photojournalist, best known as the country's leading sports photographer. He has also served as a war correspondent, and is the long-serving vice president of the National Press Club.
  Born on 16 October 1931, Bush was educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. His sports journalism career began in 1949, when he photographed his first rugby union test match for the New Zealand Herald. Since then he has photographed most All Black matches in a career that has spanned over 60 years. A major exhibition of his sixty-year career of rugby photographs, "Hard on the heels", toured thirteen centres on New Zealand in 2010–11.
  In the 1991 New Year Honours, Bush was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for public services. In the 2011 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to photography. He lives in and works from Island Bay in Wellington.
  He is a nephew of 1931 All Black Ronald Bush.
context_section_description: Peter George Bush CNZM QSM (born 16 October 1931) is a New Zealand photographer and photojournalist, best known as the country's leading sports photographer. He has also served as a war correspondent, and is the long-serving vice president of the National Press Club.
  Born on 16 October 1931, Bush was educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. His sports journalism career began in 1949, when he photographed his first rugby union test match for the New Zealand Herald. Since then he has photographed most All Black matches in a career that has spanned over 60 years. A major exhibition of his sixty-year career of rugby photographs, "Hard on the heels", toured thirteen centres on New Zealand in 2010–11.
  In the 1991 New Year Honours, Bush was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for public services. In the 2011 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to photography. He lives in and works from Island Bay in Wellington.
  He is a nephew of 1931 All Black Ronald Bush.
caption: Bush in 2011
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