She had an affinity for the New Zealand landscape, with a particular interest in the South Island high country.

Around 1937, Kent met the legendary Arawata Bill (William O’Leary) and took several photographs of him, which have been regularly reproduced.

[1] Her photographs and articles were published in the Auckland Weekly News, the New Zealand Railways Magazine,[2]the Australasian Photo-Review and in the British annual Photograms of the Year 1939.

[1][3] From 1939 until 1941 she did a series of Saturday evening talks on Christchurch radio station 3YA on photography topics.

[1] In this field she did work for the organisations such as the Canterbury Museum, Cawthron Institute, and the Pathology Department at Christchurch Hospital.