We were lucky to catch up with Haley Davis recently and have shared our conversation below.

Haley, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to start by getting your thoughts on what you are seeing as some the biggest trends emerging in your industry.

A trend that I have been seeing lately in the world of photography has been people going back to the basics, like using film and disposable cameras again. That is where this all started for me as a kid! We’re starting to pull back from the super posed, perfectly primped, photos. I love this ‘trend’ because there is something so special about the candids, the photos you even forgot you took and see again once the film is developed. It’s such a different sense of excitement than using big DSLR cameras or cell phones. This is also how I feel like I kinda run my photo business, not curated & a little all over the place, but in the best way haha.

Haley, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Im just a midwest girlie that grew up in the country, with a vast imagination as a kid.

My art and *vibes* come a lot from the music I listen to & movies I have watched, both of those mediums have always heavily influenced me. Not just wanting to capture ‘the shot’ but wanting to capture the way it made me feel. Im not good with my words, so that is a way I felt like I was able to express myself.

As I got older, and started to take this more seriously, I slowly started to mold into what I thought the industry wanted from me. (It was during a time when photography was really starting to saturate the market, and the pressure of fitting in really weighed on me.)
Eventually though, I began to make space for who I am as a photographer, by listening to my inner self. Bringing who I am, and what I envision to projects/shoots. Unapologetically.
Im here to get weird, capture your visions & do it all while also feeling like we’re just friends hanging out.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

A lesson Ive had to unlearn, and honestly am still working to think against, is that photographers can’t live off their art. Unfortunately while growing up, being a photographer felt like a silly little kid dream. Nobody I knew did it, let alone as a JOB, only as a hobby, so it made me think that doing photography was just that, a side hustle. What a soul crushing reality that was. It led me to feeling kind of lost on what I was supposed to do.
The last 3-4 years though, the amount of people I have seen that have started from nothing and are making full livings from being photographers, traveling the world, meeting cool people, its awesome.
It gives me hope that one day, I will be there too. If I just keep working on it & showing up, anything is possible.
Don’t crush the dreams you had as a kid.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Meeting more creative folks!!
You get to know so many people and how they function, so it expands your ideas and creativity. You start to see with new eyes, and not just for photos but for life in general.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.hjuuune.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_hjuuune
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hjuuune/
• Other: TIKTOK:
  https://www.tiktok.com/@haleyjuuune

Image Credits

I have taken all of the photos.