BIO

I was born on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. My father was a farm labourer and could do everything. He always kept a vegetable garden and was very good at it. Then we moved from the country to the city so that my siblings and I could attend high school. Our new home had a beautiful flower garden and it was the prettiest thing ever. One day after school I came home to find that the flower garden had been dug up. Finding me looking at the garden, Dad said: well you can't eat flowers and that patch is the best place to plant potatoes! He was a practical man.

My mother was a seamstress by trade. She had an industrial sewing machine that roared. I was forbidden to use it but would watch her work; and whenever she would go out would sneak onto the machine. When I was in high school I made my own ball gown. It was made from leftover scraps and was a psychedelic pink that flapped whenever I moved.

My photography began when our own children were born. I would chase after them with a camera snapping them. When our children were older we sent them to school in France. My husband bought a small digital camera which I took to record our children's experiences. I fell in love with how quickly I could see the images I took that my husband bought me my own camera. Some of the images I captured while overseas were used in publications and product catalogs. I have shot everything from real estate to food but my focus and specialization is towards fashion and lifestyle.

"But in, you know, the Muggle world, people just stay put in photos."
"Do they? What, they don't move at all?" Ron sounded amazed. "Weird!"