Graduate of New York University and International Center of Photography in New York, MFA in 2005.

Interned with Bruce Weber, and was studio manager for Jonathan Becker of Vanity Fair.

Fine Art featured in Chelsea Galleries, NYU gallery and recipient of the O1 visa in the U.S. for artists of exceptional talent.

Hand selected by Norwegian photographer Morten Krogvold to mentor with him at his workshop in Procida, Italy. Only attendee who was invited and had a translator provided.

Worked at the Maine Photographic Workshop as a printer in the darkroom - printed for clients like Amy Arbus.

Hand selected to work privately with Paul Caponigro in his personal darkroom, also in Maine. Caponigro was a student of Minor White who was a student of Ansel Adams - Adams created the zone system still used today.

Though Nahele no longer prints her own photographs and moved towards digital very early on, it was because her way of working in the darkroom often had her in contact with chemicals. Nahele was also aware that disposing of chemicals was toxic to the environment. Nahele loved the darkroom but felt her health and the health of the environment and the creatures in it took precedence. However, her knowledge of tones is carried over into her digital artwork.

Freelance photographer in New York and Toronto where she photographed Indre Rockefeller, (at the time a ballerina for The Washington Ballet and went by her maiden name Indre Vengris, and a personal friend), Jeanne Beker (Canadian TV personality and fashion editor), Veronica Tennant (prima ballerina for the National Ballet of Canada), Erin Karpluk (While she was the star of Being Erica), as well as many talented models, working professionals and was the in-house photographer for Media City in Toronto and EIC Agency in New York.

Currently Nahele lives and works in Kaua’i, Hawai’i.