Skye Parrott is a photographer and creative director based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied political science at UCLA before moving to Paris in 2001. She worked there as a freelance photo assistant, managing editor at Self Service Magazine, and studio manager to Nan Goldin before starting on her own as a photographer in 2004. She has been commissioned by clients as diverse as The New York Times, British Vogue and Jill Stuart, exhibited her work internationally, and published several small volumes of her work. In 2008 she co-founded Dossier, an independent arts magazine and Dossierjournal.com, a cultural website. Dossier seeks to present fashion, literature and the arts and in a single volume and publishes twice a year.
Hot NY summer, working on the new issue of Dossier.
I've been in NY less than a week this month. The places I have been are awesome, so I'm not exactly complaining, but I would like to see my bed and my dog a little more often. The best place I went (this month and in a long time) is Hana in Maui. It's on the far side of the island from the airport and all the people, and you have to drive a few hours on a twisty mountain road to get there. It feels like somewhere else, so much so that I even went surfing - and actually surfed! And the rainbow eucalyptus photo is real. That's what the trees look like. There was a whole grove of them and aside from looking otherworldly they obviously smell great.
Just came back from a four day press trip to Marrakech. There's been a lot of development and the streets have gotten very clean since the last time I was there - about nine years ago - but there are still donkeys pulling carts between the fancy cars. I like the souk, with its incredible maze of stalls and nearly overwhelming chorus of people shouting for your attention. I bought a handmade leather purse for $30 that I forsee myself wearing into the ground. We went to Jemaa el-Fna Square at night, where I held a snake and a hedgehog and ate sheep's head. And laying by the pool at the Es Saadi Hotel, I learned that the pigeons in Morocco look the same as the ones here, but their undersides are robin's egg blue. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get a picture of that.
Spring in the city... wishing it were even warmer already, because what I really like is summer.
New issue of Dossier launches Thursday. Check it out here: http://dossierjournal.com/current_issue/
Back in New York for a few weeks, the longest I've been here at one time in months. Younger Than I'll Be, a show I curated, just opened at BAM, and other than that I've been trying to catch up on seeing friends and breathe for a second before the new issue of Dossier arrives and I have to start shooting again for fall. I also managed to update my website in between: http://www.skyeparrott.com/
Driving through Iceland shooting for J. Lindeberg with stylist Valentine Fillol-Cordier and writer Julie Cirelli as our model. We encountered gale force winds in Vik, which smashed the door of our rental car, a volcano exploding above the biggest glacier in Europe, and six rainbows in one day as we drove through the east. Back in Reykjavik tonight and happy to be going home to New York tomorrow.
In Reykjavik for the weekend for the design and fashion festival and then driving through Iceland for the next week shooting for J. Lindeberg. Reykjavik is incredibly, stunningly small, pretty uniformly grey and inhospitable, and there aren't any trees. I'm not sure people are really supposed to live here. On the other hand, the guy who arranged my rental car told me that when I'm done with it, I should just leave it in the airport parking lot, unlocked, with the keys in the glove box, and he'll come collect it. So I guess that's the plus side.
