Forever Portrait Studio

Celebrating a truly wonderful milestone 🌺My beautiful Aunty Ofania’s 90th birthday! I wanted to commemorate this milestone with a timeless portrait of her surrounded with flowers from our family garden.

As the 7th child of 17 children, born in 1935, she’s a beacon of love, resilience, family legacy and timeless beauty. With 15 of her siblings now gone, it’s just my mum ~number 17~ and Aunty Ofania remaining making these moments even more precious.

Wearing a dress she bought for her 70th birthday, vibrant niuean kahoa hihi and featuring gorgeous hydrangeas from my backyard, each photographed 1 by 1 and edited into the portrait the old fashioned way…with my hands. It’s my greatest honour to create heirloom artworks like this.

I had the honour of photographing 100-year-old Harry Jackson, the last of his generation and Niue’s oldest living national.

I feel a deep sense of responsibility and privilege in preserving his legacy with dignity.

This portrait is a beautiful reminder to cherish each day and enjoy the seasons that shape our lives.