Helen Westerbeke has been interested in photography since childhood and studied bursary photography at school.  Giving it away for 20 odd years when life got in the way, she didn’t pick up an SLR again until 2009 in a new digital world.  She re-learnt the craft again through night classes, workshops and camera clubs.

Photography is her passion. Helen shoots every single day and enjoys all genres but is most interested in creative and documentary.

She is a Fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand and together with her Mother Marg, who is an Associate, run 'Stop Time Photography'.