Camilla Rutherford

Camilla Rutherford (born 7 August 1983) is a Scottish photojournalist who lives in Wānaka, New Zealand. Rutherford specializes in outdoor sports photography and often shoots in the mountains of New Zealand. She shoots subjects related to sports, travel, and lifestyle.

Personal Rutherford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 7 August 1983, to a family of five children. She later became a skiing instructor. She studied at St. Martin's College of Art in London where she earned an Arts Honors Degree. She married Tim Rutherford and has a son. Before she moved to Wānaka, she alternated between Verbier, Switzerland and Wānaka so that she could live in both the southern and northern hemispheres. After she married Tim she moved to his farm in Tarras. Rutherford shoots mostly in the mountains of New Zealand, saying that "beautiful things happen when people and the mountains meet." She started her career life as a ski instructor, and later became a photographer, launching her website in 2009. The Faction Collective ski company advertised her website to their users to promote her work. She started taking photographs with an iPhone 4 before getting a Canon camera. Using a Canon 5D Mark 3 camera, Many of her pictures have been published in travel magazines all over the world. Rutherford is supported by F-Stop Gear, Peak Design, Cecilia Gallery, Smith Optics and Faction Skis.

Notable works of photography Red Bull Competition in 2010

Awards Rutherford was a finalist in the Wings category of the Red Bull Competition in 2010, Rutherford appeared as a finalist in the Pro Photographer Showdown in 2012. She was also a finalist in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year in 2013. Rutherford was one of the winners of the 2015 New Zealand Press Photographer of the Year. Her photos were displayed as part of an exhibition by The Botanist in Auckland on 9 December 2015. Rutherford was also voted one of the world's best female action sports photographers by Still Stoked. In 2018, she was a finalist in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year.