Yolanda Hoskey is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Working across portraiture, documentary, and fashion, her practice explores the richness and complexity of Black identity. With a background in Theatre Arts and Film, Yolanda brings a narrative-driven approach to her work—centering care, collaboration, and authenticity to create images that feel both intimate and expansive.
Raised in East New York, her perspective is deeply informed by the beauty and multiplicity of her community, often overlooked or misrepresented in mainstream media. Her photographs reclaim narrative space, honoring Black life in all its dimensions—joyful, nuanced, unapologetic, and free.
Yolanda’s commissioned work has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Times Union, while her photography has been featured in Essence, Hyperallergic, and by the Columbia School of Journalism. Her images have been exhibited in Body Freedom for Every(Body), Vote for Democracy, SaveArtSpace: Tigueras, Sula Playing in the Dark, A Tapestry of Aliveness at the Magnum Foundation, and Our Black Experience at Photoville.
She is a 2024 Magnum Foundation Fellow, a 2023 Getty Images Creator Accelerator recipient, and the 2025 recipient of the International Photographic Council’s Rising Star Photographer Award, presented at the United Nations.
Email: info@yolandahoskey.art
Instagram: @ghettoyolie
Select Clients and Published Works
New York Times, Denim Tears, Bloomberg, FUJIFILM, SNIPES USA, ESSENCE Magazine, Thierry Lasry, Quality Control, Hanahana Beauty, Walmart, Aperture Magazine