Rezia Hayes (b. 1998, Gainesville, FL.) is a Miami-based photographer exploring collective memory, mysticism and vernacular life with an ethnographic approach to documentary and editorial photography.

Self-taught, her practice has developed through trial-and-error, experience and various workshop classes. Hayes’ visual language is shaped by the flamboyance of Florida’s landscape with vibrant, high-contrast, energetic blues, yellows and greens finding place in her work. Fascinated with the casual theatricality of daily life, her ongoing project, Florida Isn’t a Place but a Feeling, embarks on a visual exploration of myths and lived realities within the State, following a thread of these paradoxes between North and South Florida — two places she calls home.

She has exhibited her work in the Juneteenth Fine Art and Photography Group Exhibition at MONAD NYC. Her photography has also been published in print and digital editorial features by Impact.EDITION, Miami New Times and LoHi Magazine.