Soleil Vailes is a recent alumna of Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, and a current First-Year Photography Major at Spelman College. She has been a Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards recipient, both in 2023 and 2024. She has also received recognition ranging from Honorable Mentions to an American Visions Award Nomination. With this, she has landed a feature in the Boston Globe and has been a contributing artist to multiple publications of BLAC Magazine.

 

While she has experience in a wide spectrum of arts mediums, Photography has always had a place in her heart. Beginning in Darkroom and now expanding her experience to Digital, Vailes plans on using her lens to continue to highlight stories of marginalized souls and communities as she travels across the globe.