Hi There

We are Olga and Katherine, a tight-knit team of two friends passionate about creative storytelling. We love photographing weddings, this is what drives us and what fulfills our creative passion, we combine the best of each other’s experience and skills to produce really powerful and stunning imagery that you’ll fall in love with.

Who We Are

olga
OLGA

After earning a degree in Visual Design and gaining 5 years of experience in some of the leading design studios in New Zealand and Europe, in 2010 Olga decided to refocus her career towards photography, which has always been her passion. While working as a freelance commercial photographer and running a portrait photography studio, Olga found her true passion in photographing weddings.

Olga has a good eye for both design and photography and loves to utilise her design skills while creating stunning images for her clients. She finds inspiration in capturing genuine moments and telling amazing stories of love between two people through images.

Random facts about Olga

  • Olga and her husband love road trips. They have visited almost every part of New Zealand, except Stewart Island, and have driven through half of Australia from Cairns to Adelaide.

  • Olga loves the South Island and dreams that one day she will own a cherry farm in Cromwell.

  • Olga loves lighthouses and has even made herself a promise to visit all the lighthouses in the world. Are you getting married near one of those?

  • Olga is a keen baker and loves making complicated cakes like those in French Patisseries. Then, of course, she takes photos of them. One of the photos has recently been published in Sweet Dreams Magazine in Germany and Switzerland.

  • Olga has powerful teaching skills and has taught her cat Sophie to offer her paw in exchange for treats.

  • Olga and her husband had a very non-traditional wedding. She wore a black dress and he rocked a long trench coat. Their wedding was featured in the NZ Woman's Weekly Magazine.

  • Olga's dream travel list is Norway, Japan, Peru, Germany and the Czech Republic.

  • Olga started her career working two jobs: as a Graphic Designer in a webdesign agency and as a teacher of computer graphics in a private school. She taught Adobe Photoshop and 3D Graphics to her students.

  • Olga's favorite movie is Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica.

katherine
KATHERINE

As a versatile and inquisitive individual, Katherine has always been in search of her life passion. Finally, after a few years of scouting and trying different areas such as economics, advertising and marketing, in 2012 Katherine found her authentic way to speak with the world – through photography. Aside from wedding photography, she finds inspiration in art and enjoys art-photography. Katherine is also the head photographer and project manager at the online journal Papaya Stories, an inspirational project.

Katherine is a creative soul and art-lover; her drive to produce something original is endless. However, she is also very interpersonal and can make everyone smile with ease, allowing them to relax in front of the camera.

Random facts about Katherine

  • Katherine has asian roots and knows a few songs in hebrew.

  • Katherine doesn’t like musicals however she has seen Notre dame de Paris more than 10 times.

  • Katherine loves New Zealand. If you ask her why, she would reply that green is her favourite colour.

  • Katherine loves cats for their independence and purrr noises.

  • Katherine finds the black colour lovely.

  • When Katherine was 10 she genuinely believed that her parents were aliens.

  • Originally Katherine is from Siberia where it is -45 degrees in winter and +30 degrees in summer.

  • Katherine loves fairy tales; she has read more than 100 different stories since she was little.