
Skye Hawkins
My photographic practice explores emotional ambiguity, psychological atmosphere, and the tension between observation, memory, and narrative. Working in both color and black and white, I create images that move between documentary observation and cinematic interpretation, focusing on moments that feel psychologically charged yet emotionally unresolved.
I am drawn to transitional states — adolescence, solitude, vulnerability, spectatorship, and the quiet performances embedded within everyday life. Public spaces, fleeting encounters, isolated figures, and ordinary environments become emotional landscapes shaped through light, gesture, atmosphere, and framing.
Influenced by photographers such as Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Helen Levitt, and Diane Arbus, my work examines how photographs can simultaneously reveal and withhold emotional truth. Rather than constructing fixed narratives, I seek to create images that remain open-ended, inviting viewers to project their own memories, anxieties, and interpretations into the frame.