Her present work deals with the role of place and the revisit within her photographic practice, which also seeks to continue a conversation with the nature of photography and its relationship to tension. She graduated with a Master of Art and Design degree with honours from AUT University in 2013, holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art from the Dunedin School of Art and a Bachelor of Applied Visual Imaging degree from UCOL. Since completing her Masters she has regularly held solo exhibitions in both Dunedin and her hometown Whanganui including ‘Don’t Quite Belong’ (2014) and ‘From Fordell’ (2015). Samantha has won several awards from the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography Iris awards and in 2014 was selected as a finalist for the National Contemporary Art Award.