Marti Friedlander. Photo: NZ Herald
Her Facebook account said she passed away peacefully this morning.
Friedlander, born in the East End of London to Russian Jewish immigrants, married a New Zealander Gerrard Friedlander in 1957 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1958.
She worked as a nurse before taking up photography, documenting the country she had adopted and social activisim.
Her work involved collaboration with the historian and author Michael Kine while photographing Maori women and moko.
In 1998 she was admitted as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
In October this year, she revealed she was suffering from breast cancer.
