ABOUT
| Hayley Sparks, born to Australian parents in Salzburg, Austria, grew up in Portland, Oregon. After moving to Manhattan in 1989 to attend New York University, she built a career as an actress that included Broadway, Film and T.V. A decade later, a lifelong fascination with the camera led her to do an internship with Annie Leibovitz and then to Australia where she studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Hayley graduated with a B.A. in photography in 2005 and was the proud recipient of the "Earl Carter Award for excellence in fashion and editorial photography." Hayley is primarily an editorial and advertising photographer specializing in fashion, portraits and children. She is also available for commissioned portraits of actors, musicians, artists and children. Hayley is a portrait/celebrity winner of PDN's 14th annual PIX digital imaging award and a two time Black and White Spider award recipient. Her work was exhibited at Umbrella Arts in Manahttan in the 2010 show "Bed". Hayley now lives in Woodstock, New York with her husband and two children. Her daylight studio is in Manhattan. "I am inspired by exquisite light, beauty and emotional truth. People fascinate me, as does the transformative power of fashion and the story one image can tell. Photography allows me to dream, play, and hold onto a moment in time. I strive to make images that both transport us out of this world and anchor us in it's simple beauty, creating imagery that is intimate, tactile and poetic." |
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