Jos

...unlike the modern selfie, Divis isn’t putting himself forward. These pictures are not about him, he’s just a witness, capturing something that will otherwise vanish unremarked. The film Jos is a bit like that too. . . . it’s a glimpse at two lives — Jos, and the young country he watched grow up.

– Reviewer Simon Morris on Jos, Radio New Zealand website, 10 May 2023

What draws you into the documentary Jos isn’t Divis’s riveting life story, or that he’s some sort of overlooked master. It’s the pictures of New Zealand being born before our eyes — the places, the people, the change from the posed colonial portraits to contemporary snapshots.

– Reviewer Simon Morris on Jos, Radio New Zealand website, 10 May 2023

I call him the inventor of the selfie: just so many of his shots, he's in them.

– Photographic expert Brian Scadden on Jos Divis

...thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining . . . [director Dave] Kwant and [writer Robyn] Janes deserve plenty of credit for managing to distil Divis’ adventures (which also included two extensive journeys around the globe and an almost three-year internment on Somes Island during World War II) into such a succinct running time, without it feeling forced, or once-over-lightly.

– Stuff critic James Croot in a four star review, 5 May 2023