Rezia Hayes (b. 1998, Gainesville, Florida) is a Miami-based photographer and visual storyteller working through a methodology she describes as docutorial photography. Combining documentary research and collaboration with the visual strategies of editorial image-making, her practice explores identity, collective memory, vernacular culture, and the ways people perform and construct meaning within their everyday lives.

Through interviews, observation, research, and creative direction, Hayes creates photographs that are rooted in lived experience while embracing stylization and narrative construction. Her practice is driven by a fascination with performance, surreality, and the relationship between personal identity and place. These interests inform both her commissioned and independent projects, including Florida Isn't a Place but a Feeling, an ongoing exploration of myth, reality, and everyday life across Florida. 

Hayes’ work has been exhibited in the Juneteenth Fine Art and Photography Group Exhibition at MONAD NYC and published by Impact.EDITION, Miami New Times, and LoHi Magazine.