Posted on 06/11/2015 7:33:36 PM PDT by naturalman1975
It is New Zealand's most notorious gang whose members operate in a criminal world of violence that is usually shut off to the outside world.
But one photographer managed to gain their trust - and in turn rare access - resulting in haunting images of some of the key members of the Mighty Mongrel Mob.
Wellington-born Jono Rotman has spent nearly eight years, from 2007, embedded with the Mob, gaining a unique glimpse of their culture, customs and even a bloody clash with rival group the Black Power.
Like most gangs, the Mob, who formed in Wellington and Hawkes Bay in the 1960s, have a stringent code against outsiders, preferring to operate in the shadows. And it's this that makes the chilling images that much more spectacular.
Rotman, who captured images of the gang's key members including convicted killer Shane Harrison, Bung Eye, Greco and Toots, told Daily Mail Australia he began earning their trust while photographing New Zealand's prisons.
‘I spoke with a gang liaison officer who gave me a contact of someone who bridged the divide between gang and civilian life. Things evolved from there,’ he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
These clowns wouldn’t last 2 hours on Chicago....New Zealand tattoo artists are very good and probably well to do based on the money these jackasses have spent!!!
Some of those Kiwis, New Zealanders, are obviously, indigenous, some remind me of Native Americans.
I read some interesting thing on the people of the South Pacific islands, I guess that was mainly Samoa. Not sure if there is a similarity with Samoans.
SS, that’s interesting, a friend and I got into a discussion. You almost have the SS symbol in the Kiss (band) logo and the Ramones have their Blitzkrieg Bop song. I think people go with that stuff as someone said, ‘rebellion’.
Used to have a New Zealand (transplant) FReeper here that was in the Guardian Angels. Diehard the Hunter was his handle, I think.
They were a white gang, that whites eventually became a minority of.
Right out of Mad Max ....Road Warrior.
They aren’t so scary, but man, when they stick out their tongues, RUN!
Like the Democrats, only in New Zealand? Wow.
Weren’t they in ‘Every Which Way But Loose’ with Clint Eastwood?
I vacationed in NZ in the late 1980s. On one bus tour, the driver commented about a group of them (minding their own business) that to get into the Mongrels, you had to spend time in federal prison.
“Wellington-born Jono Rotman has spent nearly eight years, from 2007, embedded with the Mob, gaining a unique glimpse of their culture, customs and even a bloody clash with rival group the Black Power.”
Jono Rotman is to journalism what Jane Goodall is to anthropology.
What a bunch of lowlifes.
It is interesting how re move values from the schools and it results seep into society and people eschew civilization the more and more bestial the inhabitants become as they devolve into tribalism.
Not to be confused with the Micronesians from more northern island chains.
“Whale rider” was about the girl IIRC...excellent movie...
And I am sure they do not ride motorcycles. /s
I’m so use to seeing facial tattoos and piercings that I find those photos boring.
Don’t look them in the eye. Vacate the area with haste. Not a breed to mess with for sure.
See, as well, where our future is going in the “islands” when we revere tribal culture and devolve into this crap.
His purty mouth even says "FUN".
These guys are scarier than American bikers. They look like mad max extras.
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