Hello, my name is Justin Hankins. I think you're special.

I do quite a bit of “stuff,” so to sum me up in one generic self-aggrandized statement: I’m a photographer, entrepreneur, student, and all-around awesome dude (according to my mom) based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Workstuff

Since 2003 I’ve been selling prints through this website, which serves as the fine art wing of my photography business. I exhibit photographs up and down the east coast, license artwork to the business and academic worlds, and sell prints to discriminating customers (like you!). Aside from my fine art and stock photography work, my main gig is photographing weddings all around the world.

In 2000, I founded Meticulous Design Group, an interactive design firm based out of Washington D.C., VB, and San Francisco with my partner, John Athayde. Although we originally set out to revolutionize the online world of music, movies, and games, we found a surprisingly rewarding niche in strategizing and building content management systems for governmental and non-profit organizations. Instead of working with hip new bands out of Scandinavia like we originally planned, we spent most of our time helping nonprofit organizations educate mothers in developing countries how to breastfeed and nurture their children.

Before Meticulous, I founded Hankins Interactive Consulting out of Richmond, VA to help companies leverage the capacity of the young Internet in their businesses, and I worked as web developer for CircuitCity.com.

Edumacationstuff

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, I grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. I migrated back to Kalamazoo to try and play hockey for Western Michigan University after high school. Quickly realizing there was much more to college than 5AM hockey practice, I hung up my skates and became a Resident Advisor of a freshman residence hall. I stayed in Michigan for two years before transferring back home to Virginia. I’m now finishing my 13-years worth of education at the University of Virginia, where I’ve been awarded honors from Alpha Sigma Lamda National Honor Society and Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. (I’ve apparently evolved into one of those dorky smart kids I used to make fun of in high school.)

My photographs are captured in a number of ways, including traditional and digital SLRs and a handful of medium-format vintage and plastic cameras. Most of my prints are produced by a Fuji Frontier on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, which is processed through traditional photographic wet chemistry. My smaller prints are typically produced by an Epson R800 using UltraChrome inks on Epson’s Premium Luster paper, both of which are designed to last a lifetime.

I hope you enjoy my photographs as much as I enjoy creating them.