Will Steacy

Will Steacy (b. 1980) is an American photographer and writer. He comes from five generations of newspapermen and worked as a Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles, Fondation Vevey Ville d’Images, Bienne Festival of Photography, World Press Photo, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of the City of New York, FotoFest Biennial, African American Museum of Art, Noorderlicht Foundation, Annenburg Space for Photography, among others, and represented in major collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, George Eastman House Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Special Collections, Getty Museum Research Institute, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Hirsch Library, International Center of Photography Library, Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Nobel Collection, Ogden Museum and The Library of Congress. Steacy was named 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers by The Center for Documentary Studies and one of Photo District News’ 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch. His critically acclaimed books Photographs Not Taken and Down These Mean Streets were published in 2012, and his award winning two-volume book and newspaper project Deadline was published in 2015. He is a recipient of The Aperture Foundation Green Cart Commission and Tierney Fellowship and nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Paris Review, Aperture, Forbes, Colors, Time, Wired, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Al Jazeera America, British Journal Of Photography, Newsweek, HBO, CNN and he has been a guest on NPR, BBC, VICE, CBS and PBS. Steacy is represented by Christophe Guye Gallery in Zurich.