Haley Sessoms is a lens-based artist from Roanoke, Virginia. She holds a BFA in Photography with minors in Museum and Gallery Practices and Art History from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Rooted in themes of home, memory, and opacity, her work spans photography, writing, textiles, and painting.

Her work has been featured in Docha Magazine, Lunar Press, and Suboart Magazine, and her poem “Willow” was published in Quilted Hearts by Eber & Wein Publishing. In 2024, she debuted her first solo exhibition, The Photographs Belong to the Family, at Pratt’s Photo Gallery. The show featured 22 photographs that examine the complexities of familial relationships through a personal and biracial lens. Drawing from her mother’s 2009 thesis, Haley created a body of work that repositions her understanding of Blackness within her family. The series reimagines her relationship with her mother through images and is extended in book form, combining found text, her mother’s photographs, and her own writing.

Haley can be reached at haley.sessoms@gmail.com or on instagram @moriijade