Poihakena Portraits – Maori Styled Photography

Poihakena Portraits – Maori Styled Photography

Poihakena Portraits was started in 2014  to help raised funds for Urukahurangi Te Kōhanga Reo in St Clair. While at a committee meeting at the Ratahi whare a family portrait day was proposed by Teowai who at the time was running Say Monkey Photography. Whaea Kaylene...
Pixieset Galleries – How we deliver Digital Portrait Packages

Pixieset Galleries – How we deliver Digital Portrait Packages

Pixieset is a popular online platform used by photographers to create and share galleries of their photos, including portraits. We use Pixieset to deliver Portrait Galleries to whanau. From Pixieset they can download, export a back up to dropbox or Google Photos and...
Levin, Napier & Dannevirke Maori Portrait Sessions

Levin, Napier & Dannevirke Maori Portrait Sessions

We provide everything a whanau need to create one of our signature Maori styled portraits. We embrace all whanau and welcome any nationalities to enjoy the experience! We encourage our whanau from other cultures to bring along taonga to represent that aspect of who...
Afterpay & Poihakena Portraits.

Afterpay & Poihakena Portraits.

Our New Zealand customers can pay for their purchase using Afterpay via our eftpos terminal. Set up the digital Afterpay Card in the In-store tab in the app and follow the prompts to add it to your Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Then you just tap to pay....
Win Free Portraits for your ECE or Kohanga Reo!

Win Free Portraits for your ECE or Kohanga Reo!

Kia Ora, We are giving whanau the opportunity to nominate their Kindy, Puna, Playgroup, ECE or Kohanga Reo for Free Portraits. We will provide our usual Kohanga Portrait service and give every enrolled Tamariki a Free Tahi Package valued at $40. For a Kohanga with 25...
2023 – January Portrait Days

2023 – January Portrait Days

Kia ora e te iwi, have our calendar set for January and whanau who have been waiting for us to return to Manurewa, Hamilton, Papatoetoe, Masterton, Palmerston North, Feilding, Thames, Waihi, Kaitaia, Kaikohe & Whangarei can book in to sessions this month. We...
Māori Portraits in Hakatere, Ōtepoti & Waihopai  April 2022

Māori Portraits in Hakatere, Ōtepoti & Waihopai April 2022

We are off to the South Island next month. If you know Gareth then you might know that he grew up in Kaka Point, a tiny coastal town in the Catlins near Balclutha. The school he went to is now a Wedding Venue and the place has a population of about 231 people. For...
February 2021 – Rotorua, Taupo, Opunake, Huntly, New Plymouth

February 2021 – Rotorua, Taupo, Opunake, Huntly, New Plymouth

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...
Blenheim, Nelson & Motueka – February 2021

Blenheim, Nelson & Motueka – February 2021

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...