[6] In 2008 she was the first Pasifika artist to be nominated for the Walters Prize for Déjeuner, an exhibition depicting her cousin after a rugby practice session in France.

[6][8] In 2015, Amituanai founded ETA (Edith's Talent Agency), an art project documenting the communities near her local suburb of Ranui.

[5] 2019 was the first survey exhibition of her work at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington curated by Ane Tonga and included over 60 of her photographs.

[1] Amituanai's photography focuses on diaspora experiences in New Zealand,[2] family communities,[6] urban environments and amplifying unseen and unheard people.

[5] Many of her works depict Pasifika in Aotearoa, and transnational domestic interiors of Samoan diaspora houses.