Whitney Hayes is an American fashion and portrait photographer living and working in Manhattan and New Jersey. She began taking photos professionally later in life, after raising a family and caring for her mother who was stricken with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Her work was most recently selected to be included in the American Photography 38 book, and chosen as a winning image by The British Journal of Photography for 2020 Portrait Of Humanity.  A 2020 Lensculture award winner,  her work received two honorable mentions in the Julia Margaret Cameron 2020 awards. She has won several PDN awards, and has been a selected American Photography winner for three years.

With a client list that includes Teen Vogue, The Last Magazine, Collina Strada, Carolina Herrera, Ignant, Nike, VSCO, Moda Operandi, Donna Karan, Vogue online, and Schön Magazine, Whitney Hayes is a photographer passionate about capturing the defining moments of humanity, driven by mood as a compositional element. Searching for emotion within a landscape of disconnect, Hayes purveys youth and beauty through a range of projects from backstage and runway to editorial.

BOOKS AND ZINES

SUMMER UNSEEN PUBLISHED BY POMEGRANATE PRESS 

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 38 

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY PUBLISHED BY HOXTON MINI PRESS

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 34

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 33

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 32 

EXHIBITIONS

LENSCULTURE NEW YORK 2022

PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY EXHIBITION 2020

EDUCATION

THE ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

TEEN VOGUE,NIKE, THE LAST MAGAZINE, COLLINA STRADA, CAROLINA HERRERA, VSCO, SCHÖN MAGAZINE, IGNANT, THE CUT, MONROWE MAGAZINE, YIGAL AZROUEL, FUJIFILM, TEETH MAGAZINE, KATIE ERMILIO, DONNA KARAN, CFDA, VOGUE ONLINE.