Evan D. Williams investigates the quandaries of the numinous and carnal self in photographic media ranging from sun-exposed cyanotypes to open-bite c-prints to cathode luminograms.

Evan’s most recent solo show, Eye Elsewhere: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, was held at the Mezzanine Gallery at Benjamin Peters in his native town of Ithaca, New York in June 2019. The show’s main, eponymous series of selenium-toned photographs was a visual travelogue spanning all four hemispheres—from the Cayman Islands to Finland and the Canadian Rockies to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay. Also on display was Practical Reality, a sequence of portraits paired with redacted book pages; Useful Only For Dreamtime (Don’t Confront Me With My Failures), a tetraptych of happy accidents arising from alternative process experiments; and White Box, which contained small prints that visitors could take for free.

Evan’s previous solo shows include Little Photographs (Juna’s, 2007); Portraits (The Shop, 2009); and Not Far From Home (Earlville Opera House, 2017). His work has also been included in over twenty group shows at such venues as the Atlanta Photography Group, Chicago’s ARC Gallery, and Sotheby’s in New York, as well as in books published by Australia’s Formist Editions and the Yale University Press. Panoramas, a hybrid photo-chapbook which pairs Evan’s hand-printed pinhole photographs with ekphrastic verses by the NEA-awarded poet Jose Perez Beduya, is forthcoming from Praxis (Lagos, Nigeria) in 2020.

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