Nathan Warren Hayes
LA + BAY AREA
For me, photography is all about telling stories. When I have the opportunity to take someone’s portrait, there’s a moment where my subject and I connect, and the resulting photograph is a documentation of this connection. My ambition as a photographer is to use imagery as a way to connect people who are different from each other together and to help us understand each other despite our different lived experiences.
My journey with photography began when I was 16 and took my first photography class in high school. Since then I have been recognized by some of the most prominent organizations for artist in the nation with distinctions from the the National YoungArts Foundation in as a 2019 photography finalist, a gold key for my art portfolio from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and coming in 4th place for the National Scholastic Press Association’s Photojournalist of the Year award.