Meet Jess
I pick up my camera to find the beauty in the simplest moments
Award-Winning Family & Portrait Photographer in Auckland
Jess is a multi-award-winning family and portrait photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand, specialising in family photography, couples photography, maternity sessions, newborn photography, and natural lifestyle portraits.
She is known for her warm, relaxed approach that helps clients feel comfortable in front of the camera, allowing genuine connection and natural expression to come through in every session. Her focus is on creating honest, timeless imagery that reflects real life and real emotion.
Jess works with families, couples, and individuals across New Zealand and Auckland, capturing meaningful seasons of life through natural, storytelling photography.
Her style blends gentle direction with a documentary approach, ensuring moments are captured as they unfold, without forcing or over-posing.
Attention to detail
Clients love her calm energy, creative direction, and attention to detail. Every session is thoughtfully guided to ensure you feel confident and comfortable while creating lifelong memories.
If you’re looking for a portrait photographer in New Zealand who delivers both beauty and meaning, Jess offers more than just a photo session. She creates images that feel like home.
20+ years of experience
With over 20 years behind the lens and multiple Kodak Gold and NZIPP Iris Awards to her name, Jess is known for capturing connection, love, and personality in every frame.
Award winning photographer
Whether you're booking a relaxed family portrait session, an intimate shoot for two, or a multi-generational gathering, she’s passionate about creating images that reflect the true spirit of your family.
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Jessica has done many portraits for our family and they are simply stunning. Her photos are momentos that we will treasure forever, she is able to capture all of our personalities in a fun and beautiful way. Easy to work with, gracious and has a very fast turn around, I would highly recommend her to anyone.
- Emily
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Jessica is an awesome photographer. We wanted to have a couple of great family photo's and Jess delivered! We spoke about the setting, the styling and she had great tips for us. On the day of the shoot itself, she made sure she created different settings. Best of all, the photo's don't look staged - the kids are beautifully shot whilst playing, the way we (as parents) see them through our eyes. The photo's of the four of us are simply stunning! Would really recommend doing family photo's with Jessica!
- Maud
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Ok, where to start? Jess is wonderful! I've come to think of Jess as a friend, as well as our official family photographer! I first enlisted Jessica's talents on a creative project and haven't looked back! Since then Jess has photographed our wedding (loved, loved, loved!!), followed by a pregnancy shoot, 6-week old snaps of our wee-man, a 6-month old shoot is booked, and we intend to do it all again at 1-year.... and beyond! The fact that I keep going back for more is testament to her talent and temperament. She is always smiling and full of enthusiasm, open to ideas and happy to work collaboratively - should you be a bit of a control freak like me, and like (read: need) to be involved! That being said, she always does her homework and comes prepared, armed with an arsenal of ideas of her own, should your own plan of attack not quite come off the way you envisioned! These days I'm far more relaxed - happy for her to just roll up, confident that we'll end up with something awesome! She's super passionate about what she does and dedicated to achieving a quality result. Every time. And this means she often goes above and beyond to ensure the satisfaction of her customers. And I am one happy customer :) Thank you, Jess, for continuing to exceed my expectations and producing such beautiful and original family photos. We will treasure them for years to come! x
Haylee Warby
The moment is now
Let’s explore one day of your life and turn it into timeless mementos.