Reeva beat 300 other entrants to reach the top 12 of the 'Faces of the Future' contest, run by the now-closed Evening Post.
The new collection of photographs, including snaps from a wedding fair, were taken by photographer Mark West, now 43, who described her as a 'diamond'.
He said: "When I met her to take those photographs, I'm talking the very first time, she had quite a strong look.
"My style of photography was a little more relational and technical so I just fooled around a bit and joked around a bit and got her to smile. Here you can see the strong look and then the smiley look.
"She is very difficult to describe in many ways but I would she she is a lot like a multi-faceted diamond. There was a lot there and every time you looked there was something else.
"When I met her I was a little disappointed because she was quite short. For the proper modelling thing you need to be 5ft 7 something - you need to be quite tall.
"It is a pity, because she definitely had the personality and the X-factor to make it in the industry - just not in the height."
He said: "She was pretty much the same person as she was back when I knew her. She had a strong character and was a very strong person but incredibly generous, friendly and outgoing.
"She was also a private person. Sometimes you think of a private person as being closed but she was private and still very open."
He added: "She is quite frankly the last person I would have thought something like this would happen to."
