Isabella Harrex and her children playing on an Otago Peninsula beach at sunset

Isabella Harrex is an editorial, marketing and lifestyle photographer, based in Dunedin, New Zealand.

With a love of making people laugh, Isabella creates images that tell stories. Beautiful portraits, fresh and vibrant lifestyle work, and marketing imagery that speaks to people.

Twelve years in the business and a solid education in both film and digital has seen Isabella evolve into a specialist in natural light. Her signature 'happy people doing happy things' style (as she likes to call it) has seen her work as the principal photographer for both Otago University and Otago Polytechnic, as well as producing marketing imagery for clients including Nadia Lim, Silver Fern Farms, Otago Museum, Artemis, Enterprise Dunedin & Southern District Health Board.

Isabella is a regular contributor to Nadia Lim’s ‘Nadia’ Journal, for which she photographs bi-monthly, Cuisine Magazine, and her work has also appeared in many other New Zealand magazines including North & South, Dish, Next, Good, NZ Weddings and Kia Ora.

Isabella has photographed books The Tart Tin by Matt Cross, and more recently, lifestyle imagery for Yum! By Nadia Lim and Annabel Inglis, which can both be found in book stores nationwide.

Isabella lives on the beautiful Otago Peninsula with her husband Aidan, and their children Daisy and Raffy.

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