NEWBORN, FAMILY & WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Documentary Storytelling Beyond The Milestones
Hokitika | West Coast | Auckland | Waikato
Photographs Preserve Moments... Time Capsules Preserve Seasons
Whether you're celebrating a wedding, looking for newborn photos, preserving the beautifully ordinary rhythm of everyday life with a family photoshoot, or navigating the tender stories of saying goodbye -
My work has always begun in the same place:
By noticing everything happening around the moment you thought you wanted photographed.
I've never been one for chasing absolute perfection in everyday moments - real life rarely happens that way.
Instead, I'm interested in everything happening around the moments that matter, recording lifelong stories much bigger than just the milestone itself. I find it's often in these messier, unplanned moments that the most beautiful, connected images are created.
I pay attention to the light behind you at sunset.
To the conversations happening while everyone is watching something else.
To the way a child instinctively reaches for a parent's hand.
To the places, the rituals, and the ordinary moments that quietly become part of who we are.
I think they're the first things we forget.
And often, the things we miss the most.
That is what "The Space Between" is all about & why documentary photography
might just be the thing you didn't know you needed.
Photographs preserve moments.
Time Capsules preserve seasons.
Photographs aren't meant to spend their lives hidden inside a phone.
They're meant to be held.
Shared.
Passed around the dinner table.
Rediscovered years later.
Every full season I photograph becomes part of a Time Capsule.
A carefully curated collection of printed memories, gathered in a keepsake box and made to be opened again and again, long after the season has passed.
A tangible archive that outlasts changing technology and fading recollection.
A way to return.
Because time keeps moving.
Your memories shouldn't have to.
My commitment to you is not simply to make photographs.
It is to preserve the ordinary moments that quietly become the story of your life.
Not just the milestones.
Everything happening around them.
Every season of life can be documented within The Space Between, & beautifully preserved with a Time Capsule.
Imagine collecting the seasons of your life...
One Time Capsule can preserve a single season beautifully.
Together, they become the stories of a lifetime.
Every season deserves to be remembered.
Begin with yours.
The Season of Us
-The Strength of Two
Beyond the vows and the celebration lies the story that surrounds them - the quiet anticipation, the familiar faces, and the moments that unfold when no one is watching.
Auckland | Hokitika | Waikato | Greymouth
The Little Years
-The Wonder Of Firsts
The years of tiny hands, sleepy cuddles, first steps, and a world filled with discovery. A season where everything is new. Where every day brings another little piece of who they are becoming.
The Growing Years
- The Discovery Of Self
The years where imagination becomes personality. Where curiosity becomes confidence. Where the little person you've always known begins to reveal the person they are becoming.
The Years Between
-The Courage To Fly
The years where childhood begins reaching beyond home. Where friendships deepen. Dreams take shape. And the story slowly becomes bigger than your own.
The Seasons We Share
The years your family grows together aren't captured in a single afternoon. They're found in changing seasons, growing children, familiar routines, and the ordinary moments in between.. Each Archival Time Capsule can stand beautifully on its own, or become part of a growing collection that preserves the unfolding story of your family, year after year.
The Crossroads
-The World Unfolding.
My boutique fine art school portraits are an invitation to pause here - to preserve the personality, the presence, and the little details that make this season unmistakably theirs.
Our Life | Their Lifetime.
-They are part of our story... We are their whole story.
End of Life Pet Photography. Because the things we miss most are rarely the grand moments. They are the everyday ones - the greeting at the door, the familiar eyes, the presence that made home feel like home.
The Seasons of Goodbye
-The Final Chapter.
Every life tells a story.
A story made of relationships, shared experiences, familiar places, and moments that shaped who they were.
These photographs are created to preserve the moments, details, and connections that make a life uniquely remembered.
Because while we cannot stop time, we can preserve what matters most.
Before This Season Disappears
Let's make sure you have a way to return.
If you've found yourself somewhere in these words...
Perhaps they've made you pause and notice the beauty in the season around you.
The moments between the milestones.
The ordinary days quietly becoming part of your family's story.
This is The Space Between.
The place where the little things live.
The details we think we'll always remember.
The moments that pass quietly, until one day we realise just how much they meant.
