Photographs of the inhabitants of Stewart Island/Rakiura taken during the Covid-19 lockdown - snapped from a distance but still revealing - have been published in a new book. The photographer is artist Lairka Purik, originally from Estonia. But now it's the bush, birdlife and people of Rakiura that she explores in her paintings, drawings and photography. Lynn Freeman met Lairka at her home which is nestled in the bush, a place she thinks of as paradise. Her book is called Copeisolation, and she's working on her first solo exhibition to be held on Rakiura/Stewart Island next year.