William Josephs Radford is a photographer and artist born in 1998 and raised in the Andalucían countryside in Spain by British parents. He bought his first camera at 15 and studied Fine Art Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, graduating with first-class honours. His work explores sex, drugs, religion, mortality and identity, approaching difficult subjects through carefully composed, often symbolic images. Earlier projects include Character Building, Deflowered, Cherry Blossom and Semi-Detached.
After his father died, he made Memoirs of a Grieving Artist, a series in five chapters: White Knight, Gradient Loss, Residual Noise, Mourning Routine and Transparent. For Transparent, he digitally removed his father from family photographs, rebuilt the empty spaces over six months and printed the images as lenticular prints, in which his father appears and disappears as the viewer moves.
He was named Conceptual Photographer of the Year by the 1839 Awards. His work has appeared on the covers of F-Stop and Al-Tiba9 and has been exhibited in Paris, Arles, Berlin, Bangkok and Barcelona. (Website, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, LinkedIn)
