Poihakena Portraits was started in 2014 by Gareth & Teowai to help raised funds for Urukahurangi Te Kōhanga Reo in St Clair. While at a committee meeting at the Ratahi whare a portrait day was proposed. Whaea Kaylene saw the above portraits of the Ratahi...
We’ve got a busy March lined up with Gareth & Stephanie holding the fort. Teowai will be in Sydney packing up our studio there and organising a container to ship all our stuff back to NZ. With the way Covid has changed international travell weve realised...
February 2021 – Rotorua, Taupo, Opunake, Huntly, New Plymouth Kia Ora whanau, Im writing this post from Whakatu(Nelson) in Te Waipounamu. We are back for the 4th year in a row with a Maori portrait day tomorrow at the Beachcomber Hotel in Tahunanui. We usually...
Waiharakeke, Whakatū, Motueka…Look Out here we come Kia Ora whanau, Every year we try to visit Te Waipounamu twice. Our first trip for 2021 is bringing us to Waiharakeke (Blenheim), Whakatū (Nelson) & Motueka over the Waitangi long weekend. Gareth and I...
It was a warm environment where my 7 kids could be themselves …. which made me feel a lot more comfortable. We throughly enjoyed the experience especially the children. Louise Ngakoti We are bringing our Portrait Experience to Tokoroa on Saturday 7th...
We had the Taipeti girls come in for a Māori Portrait Session a few months ago. They were wanting to make portraits that represented the Māori part of their heritage. The portraits were to be gifted to their whanau back home in NZ. These girls are seriously photogenic...
Gareth, Stephanie & I were lucky enough to visit Perth in February. While we were there we held 4 Portrait days. We were in Sorrento on Thursday 2nd of February at the Quality Inn. Whaea Huia, her daughters Huriana & Rongomatane and grand daughter Kiara, who...
We photographed nearly 200 families this year. Thats almost 1000 people. We travelled from Sydney to Nelson and to a few places in between. We had people travel over 3 hours to come have portraits made and we really appreciated the effort. This year we have grown and...
With the 2016 coming to an end, Teowai and I would like to thank everyone who has come to visit us throughout Australia and New Zealand. A 10 day whirlwind tour from Auckland to Nelson and then back to Auckland again with 5 fully booked out portrait days and over 100...
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Maj Bob Wood enlisted in the NZ Army on the 3 October 1939 and was discharged on 28 December 1946, six years and 361 days of loyal and dedicated service to the NZDF. However, almost all of his service was served overseas in Egypt and Italy during the period January...
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Maurice enlisted in the NZ Army on the 8 January 1942 with the Army Service Corps at the young age of 24. The primary role of the Army Service Corps, which was formally established on the 6 May 1910, was to provide the supplies the Army needed, during peace and war,...
