Tom Hawkins

Astrological Sign

Taurus

A Favorite Quote

“To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected in dewdrops. Shaken from a crane's bill.” — Ehei Dogen

Photographic Influences

Sally Mann, Robert Adams, Josef Sudek, Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Photographic Education

Self-taught

Current Reading Material

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoett by David Mitchell

Recent Photographic Project

Biggest Garden: The Central Valley of California

Most Interesting Assignment or Previous Occupation?

Landscape architect

Project Statement

One third of the island of Bonaire is devoted to the harvest of salt, and the huts of the colonial era slaves who worked the salt pans are preserved within the modern salt production facilities. The silent slave dwellings and the obelisks that warned ships to avoid the area are neatly arranged along the coast, surrounded by the towering mounds of salt: a treeless, windswept, and curiously appealing place. Sometimes the marks of our cultivation are both beautiful and terrifying