Ivy Malkin is a Chicago-based fine art photographer whose work explores the quiet language of flowers and the emotional resonance of natural light. Through her floral studies, she examines light, form, and impermanence, transforming blossoms into meditations on beauty, fragility, and change.

Influenced in part by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, her images consider scale, softness, and the transient nature of living forms. Flowers appear as both subject and metaphor: states of becoming and fading, suspended between presence and disappearance.

Alongside her floral practice, Malkin photographs people, focusing on natural light, gesture, and unposed expression. Guided by the idea of the decisive moment, she seeks instances in which movement and emotion reveal something essential about human connection.

Travel informs her visual language, offering new environments and perspectives that shape her photographic approach. Across her work, she is drawn to understated, transitional moments: those that are easily overlooked yet emotionally resonant.