Louder Fashion Show With Hagar International

Last updated on 8 January 2025

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In October of 2014, LOUDER fashion exhibition happened here in Auckland, which was a week-long series of events that involved a collaboration of arts and social justice issues, raising money for Hagar International.

Hagar International are an incredible organisation that fights against human trafficking; you can read more about them, the work they do, and how you can get involved on their website.

Holey Moley events here in Auckland organised the whole week, and on Monday night it was opening night, which was a fashion show, showing outfits done by some of the students at a local Fashion school, and also a series of presenters talking about their art work and the exhibition that they are selling their work at. All the money raised throughout the week went straight to Hagar.

Now that you know the background … my friend was asked to be in charge of the fashion show, and then I was asked to do the photography. Yup…I said yes. I’ve never photographed a fashion show in my entire life, so I can’t for the life of me think why I said yes. I was feeling a bit terrified to say the least, but then a few days before the event, I was told by the event organiser that there would be another photographer too, and that was such a weight off my shoulders.

She had the better equipment, so she did the main fashion show images, from the end of the catwalk, and I was sort of the second photographer, at the side. I did shoot the make-up and hair pictures too, and while I was a bit nervous doing it all, I’m really happy with how the pictures turned out and it was such as blast being a part of it.

It also meant I got to stick around and hear (and photograph) the presenters and hear about the terrible slavery that still occurs all over the world today. If you haven’t really heard much about human trafficking, I really encourage you to check out Hagar’s website and see what they are doing.

Once you hear the stories and hear about the disgusting injustice that goes on, often right under our noses, you can’t help but have your heart ripped from your chest and want to do something about it.