Hello!
I'm Molly. I work with film as a way of slowing down, paying attention, and learning to trust the process. This space holds the work, the waiting, and what unfolds in between.
My Story & About Hicks Film Studio
Hicks Film Studio is a film photography practice rooted in process, patience, and paying attention.
My relationship with film began long before I ever picked up a camera myself. Growing up, I listened to my dad tell stories about spending hours in the darkroom in high school. It felt like magic when he described watching images slowly appear, learning to wait, learning to trust the process, and playing with the process by intentionally manipulating the light to make new patterns. Those stories stuck with me, before I even knew what to do with them.
Years later, I took my first film photography class in community college. I fell in love with the medium almost immediately. The stillness, the waiting. And then, like many things, life pulled me elsewhere. I stepped away from photography for twelve years. I graduated and moved before I was able to develop one last roll of film.
A roll that followed me and sat in my fridge for those long 12 years. Just, waiting!
When I finally returned to film, it wasn’t out of ambition or a desire to produce something impressive. It was a return to something quieter. Something unfinished. Something that had been asking for my attention for a long time.
With film, there’s no instant feedback loop. No endless revisions. No immediate validation. You release the shutter, wait, process the film, and accept what appears when the light finally hits the negative. That rhythm changed how I create, and how I see things.
Hicks Film Studio exists as a living journal of that practice. This space is not about perfect images or polished outcomes, but about showing up consistently, experimenting freely, and allowing the work to unfold without rushing toward a destination. Some frames work. Some don’t. All of them teach me how to look more closely. And, in doing so, have given me a sense of freedom I long struggled to claim when calling myself an artist.
As I move into a new chapter, my focus has shifted away from a traditional client service based business and toward developing a personal body of work that treats photography as both craft and contemplation. I’m interested in what happens when we slow down, when we sit with uncertainty, and when we allow ourselves to be surprised by what emerges through the process.
Hicks Film Studio is an ongoing practice. A place to make, wait, and see what unfolds.
To let myself be surprised and to share it with all of you!
