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CONNECTION is a quiet wealth 🫴🏿
#AIGA#naturalfibers

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🧍🏾‍♂️ @nativeboymadeitt
🧍🏽‍♀️ @vasiti_radekedeke

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#OK

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Kaupapa: Exploring indigenous foodways amidst global shifts.#Tupai-Firestone

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#L’s

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What an experience! Grateful for meeting Amosa @am_osa_ properly after many brief niceties around Poneke for what seems like a long-standing ritual amongst creatives. Being brought on to your project literally days before was spontaneous and delightfully delicious. I watched a community brought together and I felt a part of something you were highlighting. From the samoan proverbs to the prayers it was enlightening. Va'ai I le vasa 🌊 - “look to the sea”

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When cash covers the floor it's either you threw it or you're the cause for financial festivities! A full night working alongside designers, academics and indigenous beacons of hope. I've never felt safer on a project than I do when collaborating with those hailing from nations fortified by Micronesian, Melanesian and Pacific blues. #FIAFIA2025
📸: @nels_creative_

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Fa’afafine have integrated with Samoan society for generations. Whilst not all align with certain ideologies in fa’a Samoan way of living, Samoan soil still courses through their veins, respecting the pillars of every strong family and their contribution to their villages.

All Samoans now are tasked with integrating in a western society; whose core values are not as god-fearing.

With Samoan pride we continue to navigate through this hostile world where money and superficiality reign supreme just as our ancestors did over the surface of blue silk waters with unknown perimeters.

With an orator staff each Samoan has a voice.
With an Ulu fala we carry a connection to our land around our necks.
With a Fue we sweep the air to make our grand entrance.

Ty 💓:
Stylist: @sosefina_masoe
Photographer: @boyle.paul
Edit: @nels_creative_ @neli_pumpkin
Fashion designer: @nels_creative_ @neli_pumpkin
Ceremonial regalia: the generous Ete family @igelese @vasiti_radekedeke
Nails: my girl Anh @perfectnailcare_wellington

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Break up ghosts- When lovers split its their ghosts that continue to meet in secret, relishing in what their owners can no longer 👻💔

@boyle.paul
@nativeboymadeitt
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#softsculpture

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#dress
Dress designed and photographed by @nels_creative_
Modelled by @dett_.e @okek_i

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#lens #Boltonstcemetery

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#lens
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