Taaniko Nordstrom's guest appearances

Taaniko Nordstrom

Saturday Morning

The Taumata Kōrero

Jordan Peterson

Steven Pinker

Donald Trump

David Campbell

Yanis Varoufakis

Peter Thiel

Laurie Anderson

Jane Fonda

Michael Neill

Lauren Greenfield

Susan Thornton

Sara Seager

Harlan Coben

Mary Gaitskill

Tim Harford

OwlTail

Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits, a photography-based business they set up together in 2011. Based in Cambridge, they dress their customers in Māori, Pasifika, Native American and First Nations' clothing and then photograph them to create a vintage-style portrait. Soldiers Rd have taken this idea overseas to Australia, the US, Europe and India, and in 2016 started a project called Behind the Wire- Rangatahi ki Rangatira. This social enterprise involves them taking portraits of inmates at the Te Ao Mārama Māori Focus Unit at Waikeria Prison in the Waikato as a means of re-connecting them with their cultural identity and whakapapa through portraiture.

Whakapapa through portraiture: Taaniko Nordstrom