Summer Hokulani is a medicine woman with a camera. Her eye for evocative lighting and creative composition lends her photographs a sense of nostalgia and magic, but her real gift is in the way she holds her muses through the experience of revealing their most embodied, powerful, tender, open selves to her lens.

Born deep in the jungle and having grown up in close communion with nature, Summer feels at ease in the wild. From her ability to attune to and capture the spirit of the moment, to her appreciation of people and landscapes exactly as they are, all of her work is informed and guided by the laws of nature.

For the past eight years, Summer has been holding experiences centered around her photography as a healing modality, and as such, one of her favorite ways to photograph people is when they are deep inside a container of initiation, opening, healing and remembrance.

Her driving philosophy is that in order for the photograph to feel true, there must be truth in the transmission, and that moving into that transmission is a portal that one cannot regress from. She loves offering people a visual memento of the portals they’ve passed through so that they can never forget.