Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:

• a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets;
• a suction and conveyance section which is placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction;
• an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up;
• a skew correction section which is provided with a pair of conveyance rollers, and corrects a skew of the sheet being conveyed by the suction and conveyance section;
• and
• a control section which controls a force of sucking the sheet by the suction and conveyance section, wherein
• the control section changes the force of sucking the sheet by the suction and conveyance section from a first level to a second level that is lower than the first level, before a leading edge of the sheet butts against a pair of conveyance rollers of the skew correction section.