Lottie Hedley believes that beauty, inspiration, conflict, determination, and intrigue all exist in our own backyards and deserve our attention. Her drive is to tell local stories which are often overlooked because of their proximity.
Hedley attended the Maine Media College in Rockport, ME where she completed the year-long certificate program in 2011 and was awarded the Paul Caponigro scholarship by the school. During her time at the Maine Media College she focused on issues related to the vulnerability of the family farm, allowing her to pull on the muddy boots of her childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Following graduation from the Maine Media College, Hedley spent the 2011 summer at the Maine Media Workshops as a teaching assistant for photographers and reporters including Sam Abell, Sue Bloom, Nancy Donaldson, Ron Haviv, Sarah Kramer, Bob Krist, Sylvia Plachy and David H. Wells. She has also worked for Down East Magazine, Savannah Magazine and Skirt and as the on-set photographer for feature films.
Hedley was selected as one of the one hundred students to attend the 24th Eddie Adams Workshop in upstate New York during the fall of 2011 and was also selected to attend the 2011 portfolio review at Atlanta Celebrates Photography. In 2012 Hedley was selected to attend Center's Review Santa Fe and her work "Rural Harvest" is being exhibited as a solo show at the Maine Farmland Trust in Belfast, ME and her "Dare We?" series is part of a group exhibition in Bar Harbor, ME.
Hedley is currently based in Brooklyn, NY where she is working as an intern at VII Photo Agency.