Dolly Parton, Alice Hawkins’ idol, has never been capture on camera, but she has capture many other Dollys.

One Dolly is mounted, her blonde hair piled high on her head, her red heels in stirrups. Another picture shows two dolls with long acrylic nails wrapping their fingers around each other’s waists. Another Dolly, Hawkins, dons a clean white skirt suit to pose outside the tiny chapel in Dollywood, the entertainment park that the Queen of Nashville herself owns in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

British photographer Hawkins was born more than 4,300 miles away from Memphis, where Dolly Parton made her debut in the music business. However, she has spent the last ten years or more dressing up as the singer and creating a number of series that explore her own identity and the identities of other Dolly superfans through the glitzy side of Parton’s image.

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Hawkins has gained a lot of self-confidence as a result of imitating Parton’s flamboyant look, which has helped her “embrace” her femininity and sexuality in a way she hadn’t previously been at ease with.

Hawkins has always admired Dolly Parton’s extravagant Americana, and she was already a lover of her music when she first saw her live in 2002 at a modest London club. But she claimed that she became “spellbound” there. “I left understanding that

Despite their generational and geographic separation, Hawkins said she feels a connection to Parton since she too is a country kid from Suffolk. I was poor growing up since I lived in a small town. And I traveled to London, my own “cup of ambition,” she said, referring Dolly Parton’s well-known song “9 to 5” from 1980. She currently works as a photographer while raising her children in a home not far from the city.

Earlier this year, Hawkins publish the book Dear Dolly, which features numerous photo projects that were influence by Dolly Parton, from lavish, stage photographs of impersonators to bare-nake shots of Hawkins’ own pregnancy, in which she channeling the singer through voluminous hair.

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