Collection: Tracy Stamatakos

With over three decades of experience behind the lens, Tracy Stamatakos creates works that blur the boundaries between photography, drawing, and painting. Using single-capture long exposure techniques, she paints with light, colour, and contrast directly in-camera, crafting atmospheric images that feel more like memories or emotions than literal landscapes.

Her work is not just a visual record of Aotearoa’s dramatic beauty—it is an emotional response to it. Each piece becomes a deconstructed expression of presence and place, balancing mood, movement, and form.

“My work is a meditation on connection to the land or sea, to the moment, and to myself. Each piece is both a reflection and a response, an invitation for the viewer not only to observe, but to feel.”