David Wills
Photographer, artist and writer.
B3
33 photographic portraits
of Australian icons.
LURKER
An ongoing series of fictional magazine covers grappling with fashion, privacy and the street.
EARWITNESS
After being chased and tapped on her shoulder by a masked man in Bos en Lommer, a masked woman exclaimed “Met een mondkapje ken je niemand!” Amsterdam, February 2020.
SQUIZ
Out & about
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WORK
Weddings, Butterflies & the Sweetest Dreams
ALL EARS
Alie Ward’s Ologies is charming, sometimes gut-churning, but always engrossing no matter the subject. Listen to this podcast to learn about butts (gluteology), Tasmanian devils (dasurology), jellyfish (medusology) and much more.
A photograph is just a
notation; easily forgotten,
frequently ignored.
processing:
Plastic ice cream spoons, mazes, Atlanta’s real housewives, Pivot
Stuck on repeat
Be a rebel • NEW ORDER
Fun • BLONDIE
The Truth • I LIKE TRAINS
Wolves • GARBAGE
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BYSTANDER
A young Dutch woman sat aboard a busy train to Haarlem from Amsterdam. Popping her lips loudly, she glared at other passengers who she took to be too timid to mention her black mask dangling from her chin.
— July 2021
NATURAL CHARACTERS
A series of prints created as part of a month-long residency in Fiskars in Finland.
WUNDERWALL
Large-scale photo installations comprising up to 3,250 connecting images.
Prospector
A massive part of what I do revolves around gathering and trying to make some kind of sense from whatever I’ve found. I compile collections of images from photographs I’ve taken or from pages I’ve torn from magazines. I also collect objects.
