Emily Mafile‘o

• Tongan Artist
• Otara Photographer
• She photographs her own people in a Tongan perspective -a different approach from the European viewpoint in many existing photographs of Tongans.

Big Poppa and Emil 2002

Emily Mafile’o
Black and white C-type print
Courtesy of the artist

Popua 2004

Emily Mafile’o

Black and white C-type print

Courtesy of the artist

http://www.tetuhi.org.nz/exhibitions/exhibitiondetails.php?id=3

"She presents works from her current photographic series undertaken in both her ancestral homeland Tonga and South Auckland where she currently resides." -info from link

Link:
Just tells you the details of her work. 
A stated comment from photographer Ann Shelton
How culture works into her photographs
How her photographs are formed and is.