Haleigh Stanley

Fine Art Photography, Alternative Processes & Mixed-Media

Biography 

Haleigh Stanley is a North Carolina based photographer who works with digital, analog and alternative processes. She received a BFA and minor in Global Cinema at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020 and is currently working towards a Master’s degree in Photography at East Carolina University at the School of Art and Design. Haleigh’s work focuses on the complexity of human and animal anatomy, twins, and thanatophobia: the fear of death. Haleigh’s photographs focus on loss, death, and separation to help her cope with the separation from her sister. Her work depicts these feelings but also shows the many ways people grieve and experience loss.

Education2017-2020 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minor in Global Cinema2015-2017 Alamance Community College, Graham, NC Associate in Arts

Professional Experience 2020 Double Cross LLC, Co-founders- Katelyn Stanley and Haleigh Stanley
 Graphic Designer 2020 Brewer Cycles, Henderson, NC •    Creating and designing graphics using Photoshop for website, events and printed advertisements    
•    Responsible for social media design including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter    
•    Managing content on company’s website    
•    Overseeing company’s online presence and maintaining relationships with customers    
•    Working and collaborating with business partner for design elements and meeting deadlines

 Grants2019 Beatrice B. Pearman Fund for Undergraduate Research, Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC2017 Beatrice B. Pearman Fund for Undergraduate Research, Department of Art & Art History. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NC
 Group Exhibitions2019 inFocus: The Art Gallery as Classroom, FRANK Community Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2019 Senior Seminar Exhibition, Chapel Hill, NC2019 Re-Collection, FRANK Community Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC2018 Nina Chanel Abney Block Party, Morrison Dorm, Chapel Hill, NC2017 Graphein, FRANK Community Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
 Publications2019 Elise Mahon, “Photography Opens Doors to the Community with FRANK”, The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 20192019 Catherine Ransom, “FRANK Community Gallery to premier student photography exhibit”, The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 20192018 Rubenstein Arts Center, “Mural Unveiling Party at UNC with Nina Chanel Abney”, Rubenstein Arts center at Duke University, online2018 Social Practice Duke University, “Celebrate UNC’S new mural with Nina Chanel Abney!”, Social Practice Duke University, online2017 Joseph Keys, “UNC photography class puts on ‘Graphein’ exhibition at FRANK Community Gallery”, The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 2017

Artist Statement:
My art practice is mainly focused on photography and specifically, film. I choose to work with film because I enjoy the process of including more of my own hand into creating my photographs. The experimentation with photograms, textures, contrast and objects aid in my creative process but also makes each print one of a kind. The idea of forming an image with only objects and/or found materials is interesting to me because how versatile it can be. While I create photograms, my main body of work focuses on people but more so, the human body. With people, they can give too much away or too little and through photography, the photographer is able to control these aspects of their subject. What drives my work is the way I photograph the body in an abstract view, to give ambiguity and depict a different kind of landscape of the body. Through the lens of the camera, I give the viewers my perspective of how I want others to view the body in an unnatural form.

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