Young Parents Project

After working on this project for the past few months I am finally ready to put it up on my site. It's been a blast shooting these young parents and I am only just beginning. I've learned a lot through this project, it really opened my eyes to how big of a commitment having a kid really is. I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in this project thus far you guys were a pleasure to work with and I am excited to continue with this project.


The purpose of my photo project is to create a series of wholesome images that promote family. Simple photographs of young couples and families being happy. People who have kids at a young age have enough negative light shed on them from the media public opinion. The world already knows that having a baby is tough, and having a baby at a young age is even tougher. A photo series that represents something the Western world is already aware of is not going to turn any heads or stand out. However a series of images that sheds a positive light on these young, somewhat looked down upon, families shows people something they might not be aware of. The fact that even though these parents had a child at a young age, they are still happy healthy and surrounded by love.






The rest of the images as well as the audio can be found on my website under the portfolio section. If you have some time check it out and lemme know what you think!
http://www.jimmyhickey.net/

Other than that, I've just been busy finishing up my last few days of school getting ready for the madness of summer.
Mine as well throw these in, I shot some seniors with Ben last week


And here's a 14 light set up of the SCCA photo studio. Took me a while to get this shot set up, and the Space Needle is NOT photoshopped in:)


Thanks for reading, stay tuned for some more recent work. Hopefully I can get the "okay" to share my photos of Justin Homan of the Metal Mulisha doing some pretty bad ass stuff in front of the Space Needle...