Billy Hickey is a documentary and conservation photographer from Massachusetts. His work focuses on stories that take place where humans and nature collide. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology and before arriving in photography, Hickey worked with visually impaired children, volunteered across New Zealand and traversed the U.S. in a camper van documenting the highest nature points in over 25 states. In 2020 he graduated from the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. In December 2020, his project “How We Were” won first place in Lensculture’s “Black and White Photography Awards.” His work has been featured by Fotodemic, LENSCRATCH, the Eastern Mass. Hawkwatch’s Newsletter and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently based in eastern Massachusetts and is available for assignments around New England.
Quarantined at home for weeks on end, Bill Hickey turned his lens onto his family, finding glimmers of beauty in the mundane to create a document of everyday life during the pandemic.
