Conceptual nominee

I'm Not Thinking of You Anymore is an ongoing series based on daydreams, passing thoughts, and brief visions that pass through my head throughout my life. I exist in a technicolor world and adore texture, pattern, layers, and pop. In this world of paper and textiles I am free to express myself in any way I feel like. The photographs with a male figure are all self portraits, an area of photography I have come back to time and time again ever since picking up a camera. I do not use a remote trigger, self timer only, giving me 10 seconds to press the shutter, sprint to set, and arrange myself. This allows for a truly spontaneous and unforeseeable performance. When using a model I still seek this sort of feeling and am very involved in the arrangement and motions of my subject, often jumping in to join for the photographs. I seek to find the odd moments when the body doesn't quite make sense, hiding and revealing certain elements and trying to find an anonymity that is still relatable and pushes the viewer to be curious.

Charlie Hawks was born and raised in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He moved east to study photography at Bard College and graduated in 2014. He now lives and works in NYC where he shoots in his home studio and assists a variety of commercial and fine art photographers ranging from fashion shooters to landscape photographers and everything in between, all of which inform his work in a variety of ways. He has self published a book and five zines as well as co-hosted and curated four photography shows in DIY environments ranging from his loft in Brooklyn to a repurposed garage in Long Island City, Queens. He has been awarded and Honorable Mention in the 2016 PDN/Feature Shoot Emerging Photographer competition, the 2014 Surface Magazine Avant Guardian prize, and the 2013 Delta Airlines College Photography Award with a print on display in the Crown Room at JFK International Airport. Currently he is shooting his next project and biking around, jumping off of cliffs, baking, and DJing, but not all at once.