Will Hawkins and his Slow Burn project!

Will Hawkins is an Editorial and Commercial Photographer based out of the Virginia Beach area in Virginia. Will has been a Photographer for eleven years, he set out to become a professional photographer at the age of nineteen and has since traveled the continental US and Internationally to photograph a myriad of clients and projects. IG | @officialwillhawk 

Behind The Image |  Slow Burn

It took 11 years of photography experience and 18 of life experiences to finally get this image out of my head.  

“Deep down you know it’s best for yourself, but you hate the thought of her being with someone else.” From the time I heard those lyrics at the age of 12 I was obsessed with the production. I’d listen to it on repeat and visualize what the video would look like, and I saw burning photos falling everywhere.

So, when MTV premiered it in the Spring and Jake Nava (one of the best music video directors ever) used fire in post-production it was dope, because that’s what I envisioned too. 

As I got older and went through my own breakups the lyrics became clearer and so did the image I had in my head. “But you know that it’s over, we knew it was through.” Who can’t relate to lying in bed next to someone knowing it’s over with? But you’re holding on to whatever’s left and thinking of the better times you may have shared, even though they’re gone.