Bill Ward is a British photographer and actor. He was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has a degree in Modern British History from Bristol University. As a photographer he is self-taught, and he has taken photographs since he was six.
Since 2012 he has worked with intentional camera movement (ICM) and in-camera multiple exposure. His awards include the Adobe Prize at the 2015 UK Landscape Photographer of the Year and Best Seascape at the 2020 Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year. Since 2014 he has been a Brand Ambassador for Pentax Cameras and Ricoh Imaging.
IMMERSIVE is his first book with Kozu Books, published in 2025. It is an ocean ICM project. Ward has surfed for more than thirty years. For the book he went into the sea with a wetsuit, waterproof housing and a moving camera. Using Pentax DSLRs and long exposures, he photographed in, on and under breaking waves. The hardback has 88 pages and a foreword by Doug Chinnery. His earlier book, #TheatresInDanger, was a fundraising book for British theatres, published during the pandemic.
Ward has also worked as a professional actor since 2000. He is best known for playing Charlie Stubbs in the TV series Coronation Street.
