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With over 13 years of experience as a professional photographer, Tanika Blair has built a diverse portfolio spanning interiors, architecture, hospitality, retail, branding, product and lifestyle photography.
While she is best known for her work with interior designers, architects and builders, recent years have seen her become a sought-after photographer for hotels, resorts and retail brands throughout Australia and internationally. Her ability to capture the atmosphere, design intent and unique personality of a space has made her a trusted creative partner for clients across a wide range of industries.
Tanika work focuses on creating imagery that feels authentic, aspirational and engaging, helping businesses connect with their audience and stand out in a competitive market.
No matter the project, Tanika's approach remains the same: thoughtful, detail-oriented photography that tells a story, showcases great design and creates a lasting impression.
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It was a pleasure to travel to Melbourne to photograph The Sebel, one of a number of hotel projects I've completed for Accor Hotels. Assisted by Kelly, we spent two full days capturing the property, including six guest rooms, the reception, library, conference facilities, gym, pool area and exterior imagery.
As with all of my hospitality projects, we incorporated lifestyle styling throughout the shoot to create imagery that felt warm, inviting and reflective of the guest experience. With a large shot list and multiple spaces to photograph, careful planning and teamwork were key to ensuring every area was captured at its best. Being trusted to travel interstate for projects like this is always a highlight of my work, and I loved creating a collection of imagery that showcases everything The Sebel Melbourne has to offer.
4D Renovations are one of my oldest clients, and seeing this project was incredible to see how far they have come. From doing tiny little bathroom renovations, to these huge whole home renovations I'm so proud to be apart of their big beautiful business journey. This project we are excited to share will be getting published with on of Australia’s leading interior design magazines. We can’t wait to see it in print. (and yes this is something I offer, and always hope I can do for my clients, proud to say I made this one happen).
One of my favourite projects to work on is creating lifestyle product imagery for The Modern Furniture Store. For this Brisbane campaign, we hired a beautiful home through Pure Locations and spent the day transforming each space into a carefully curated setting that showcased the furniture in a natural, lived-in way.
I recently photographed the Brisbane office of McCormack Builders, creating a collection of imagery designed to showcase both the workplace environment and the company's professional brand. The project focused on capturing the thoughtful design of the office space, from the overall layout and architectural features through to the details that contribute to the day-to-day experience of the team.
Photographing the Status Anxiety store in Brisbane was a fantastic opportunity to capture a retail space that perfectly reflects the brand's clean, considered and minimalist aesthetic. My focus was on showcasing the beautiful store design, visual merchandising and customer experience, while highlighting the premium materials and thoughtful details that make the space feel uniquely Status Anxiety.
This Byron Bay project for Weathertex focused on showcasing the exterior architecture and cladding details of a beautifully designed home. With the home's striking facade and thoughtful material selections taking centre stage, my goal was to create a collection of imagery that highlighted both the Weathertex products and the overall architectural design.
Mercure Spring Hill was a wonderful project to photograph, with a focus on creating warm, welcoming imagery that reflected the guest experience and showcased the hotel's recent updates. Together with my assistant, Kelly, we styled each space with a lifestyle aesthetic and carefully planned the shoot around the beautiful morning light, which helped bring warmth and depth to the interiors.
Our second shoot for the Brisbane, Spring Hill - Mercure Hotel. This time photographing their newly refurbished rooms, capturing 2 of these incredibly renovated hotel rooms. We were pleased to be able to also lifestyle style these spaces for the shoot. Always an added bit of fun to get to ‘tell the story’ for the shoot.
Our first shoot for this hotel was of their reception/foyer, exterior, pool and conference rooms, you can see this here.
Always a joy to shoot for commercial interior design firm, Gray Puskand. This time in Brisbane for their Auto + General project.
I’ve been flown around Australia to photograph all 5 of The Modern furniture stores, and such a pleasure to do this for this beautiful company.
This beautiful home in Tallai on the Gold Coast was a joy to photograph, with such stunning finishes.
What a delicious brick and mortar to be asked to photograph in Byron Bay. I may have walked away with a tin of cookie, because how is one suppose to choose.
I usually wouldn’t shoot an exterior so late in the morning, but for this one, it really worked well for a 10.30am start. Sometimes that closer to mid day direct sunlight, really works in your favour. (sometimes … honestly very rarely, but it did work this time)
A pleasure to be asked to stay at Kirra Point Holiday Apartments, and capture my young family enjoying these beautiful apartments, and facilities. My favourite place in the world is Kirra Beach, my local, where I’ve grown up, all my best memories at this beach.
The kids did so great with their modelling once again. The combo of directing your own kids, rather then children you don’t know, I find works really well, or my kids are just quite experienced with this? either way I’ll take on more of these shoots any day.
A trip in January 2026, had me flying to Melbourne and Sydney for The Modern furniture store. A first worked for The Modern to photograph their Brisbane stores, and since then I have now photographed every store they have around Australia, proud to say they preferred my photography style and have me go photograph every store, instead of organising different photographers for every store location. Melbourne we were of course meet with a morning of cloud cover, but I’m really happy with the end results of these photos despite the challenges.
What a fun shoot! … the client was trying to organise models for this shoot with in their team, and it wasn’t going to work out, so I offered to bring my own children for the shoot, and they did incredible! … it ended up being a 5 hour shoot, and they were still taking direction, and getting each shot right until the very end, I was extremely proud.
And what a fantastic space to work on! This is my second shoot for BSPN and I was thrilled to be apart of it.
I recently photographed Gold Coast Motel, creating a collection of lifestyle-focused imagery designed to showcase the property's relaxed atmosphere and guest experience. Working alongside my assistant during the four-hour shoot, we carefully styled each space and utilised the beautiful natural light throughout the day to create warm, inviting photographs.
A pleasure to capture this beautiful home, so filled with natural sunlight for Next Level Cabinets. I spent a full day at this location, to make sure of all of the natural sunlight. I also styled the space, bringing with my boxes and boxes of props, as the home owners had only just moved in. Photography a build freshly built is always helpful, but can lack in styling, I am always happy to bring along styling pieces.
My 8th photo shoot for Gray Puksand. Australia wide, interior architect and interior design expects. This is their Brisbane project, 108 Wickham. Always a pleasure to photograph this teams projects.
I have been photographing The Modern Furniture’s stores around Australia over the past 12 months, and I was so glad they asked me to now also do their lifestyle product photography. This was a 10 hr day. We hired Honey House for the shoot, and had the help of 3 team members from The Modern Furniture, plus myself and Mathilde to make this happen on the day. We ended up being able to capture over 100 photos, and deliver 8 videos. Of course Mathilde and I took on the stylist roles and lighting technicians. The Modern Furniture aim to do one of these lifestyle shoots per quarter. We are excited to see what we do next with these photo shoots.
Architectural photography in Brisbane for Neylan Architecture of their Rosebank Square project. A big day spent at this location, capturing this incredible building in different light plus all the interiors as well.
This is the 9th Gray Puksand project I have photographed, this being the first project Gray Puksand was flown me down to Melbourne to capture.
Peppers Noosa Resort & Villas was a fantastic project that saw Mathilde and I create both photography and videography content for the property. Alongside photographing and filming the resort itself, we captured drone footage and lifestyle imagery throughout Noosa to help showcase not only the accommodation, but the destination and guest experience as a whole.
As with all of our hospitality projects, we incorporated thoughtful lifestyle styling throughout the shoot to create warm, inviting imagery that reflected the relaxed luxury of the resort. From the beautifully appointed villas and resort facilities to the surrounding natural beauty of Noosa, our goal was to create a collection of visual content that inspires future guests and captures everything that makes a stay at Peppers Noosa Resort & Villas so special.
1 of 4 shoots we did this day in Brisbane. My first shoot for Mercure hotels, and more to come! We were so thrilled with how this mid day shoot came out.
Another stunning job by the Design Scout Interiors team, this time I much more local job, this one is in Coolangatta, looking over Kirra beach.
We did this over 2 afternoons, rather than one full day, making use of all the natural sunlight this home gets, facing north-west.
A challenging shoot for me, as I don’t usually work with artificial lights, or this many. Luckily, it wasn’t downlights (the worst kind of light), but I got comfortable in the uncomfortable, and all parties were pleased with the result.
The first shoot I’ve done for Novotel hotels, and more to come! This is Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast.
My favourite thing about Gray Puksand shoots, Anita and the team allow the time to add people into nearly every shot, and it brings so much more life to their photos.
It was a pleasure to photograph this beautifully renovated Gold Coast apartment for The Good Tradie and Form + Fellow. The project showcased a thoughtful balance of functionality, craftsmanship and timeless interior design, with every detail carefully considered throughout the renovation.