22/04/2026
There are photos you takeā¦ and then there are moments youāre trusted to hold.
This was the second kind.
Meet the Wipatavits. A family from Bangkok, Thailand: a mother named Noo, her daughter Yada, her son Sam, and Yadaās husband Nat.
On the surface, a family portrait session at one of the most beautiful coastlines on the planet. But spend five minutes with them, and you realise thereās so much more sitting beneath the surface of these images.
Sam lives in Vancouver now. Noo still calls Bangkok home. Yada and Nat have built a life somewhere in between. And for a few rare days in Cape Town, the distance collapsed entirely.
This was their first time on African soil. All of them. Together.
Nat turned another year older the day after we shot, with the sun setting behind him over Camps Bay as if it had been arranged. He and Yada have been choosing each other for ten years, the kind of quiet, steady love that doesnāt need to announce itself. It just shows up. In the way he reached for her hand. In the way she laughed when she didnāt know I was watching.
And then thereās Noo, standing between her two children on a continent sheād never set foot on before, looking at them the way only a mother can. Like sheās already memorising it.
Thatās what these images hold. Not just a stunning Camps Bay sunset, though it truly was. But a family who flew across the world to be in the same frame.
A brother and sister who donāt get nearly enough of this.
A couple a decade deep into their love story. A mother who just wanted one more moment with her people.
This is what the Love Lives Here Collection looks like in real life.
Not posed. Not perfect. Just deeply, beautifully human.
š Camps Bay, Cape Town
