Alice is a portrait and landscape photographer living in Makarora, a small township at the top of Lake Wanaka.
She shoots all forms of portraiture both on location in and around Otago and from her small Wanaka studio.
Surrounded by beautiful mountains, stunning Lake Wanaka and living on the edge of Mt Aspiring National Park, Alice is living in her photographic element.
Along with her partner Nic and their son Mica (born in 2018), Alice lives off grid on a 2.5 acre section of fruit trees and garden along with Luna the much loved mongrel, 4 sheep and 6 chickens.
Alice is the daughter of Min and renowned Christchurch photographer Euan Sarginson. Along with her brother Fin, she grew up under his ubiquitous lens in Allandale overlooking Lyttelton harbour, New Zealand.
As a child, Alice was a keen spectator at Euan's fashion shoots in his Christchurch studio.
She also loved watching Euan work his magic in the darkroom, instilling a great love of shooting film, processing and printing that she still carries today.
It became clear early in Alice’s life that she had inherited a creative eye and photographic passion as well.
Once strong enough to carry the camera bag and reliable enough to catch an incoming 35mm lens being turfed at her over a delighted and somewhat stunned crowd, she regularly assisted Euan at weddings. At this time she was still at primary school.
At 20 years of age Alice headed over to London where she spent 2 years assisting commercial photographer Ken Griffiths, joining him on campaigns shooting amongst other things, Land Rovers in Wales, an air craft carrier in Corpus Christi, Texas and icebergs in Greenland.
Another stint in London saw her as part of the team to set up and manage wildly successful restaurant The Providores for kiwi chefs Peter Gordon and Anna Hansen.
More recently Alice lived in Sydney for 6 years during which time she acquired a Diploma of Photography while assisting numerous photographers, pursuing her own freelance work and also furthering her skills working in the lighting department of New South Wales’s largest photographic studio complex Sun Studios.
Alice still travels north periodically for shoots with her loved and loyal clients in Christchurch.
She'd love to hear from you for a no obligation chat regarding any of your photographic requirements.