
My father handed me one of his spare Nikons, an FM2, when I was 10 years old, growing up in a small mill town in northeastern North Carolina. Back then summers were spent exploring the wilderness along the Roanoke River and the countryside of the rural south or roaming the Wyoming countryside with my mother's family. About a year after I was handed my first camera I was processing my own film and making prints before earning my first byline for a story/picture package of a middle school basketball game on January 9th, 1992.
Over the ensuing decades, I’ve worked in newspapers across the country amassing over 100 awards from collegiate, state, and national journalism/photojournalism institutions.
I am an alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop 2001.
My father and grandfather before me were newspapermen. Collectively my family has over a century of experience in the newspaper profession.
Today, I work as a freelance photojournalist and writer with a wide variety of knowledge and skill. My degree is in commercial photography with an emphasis on essay and portraiture. I work in a variety of digital and film formats, infrared, and in-camera multiple exposures.
This archive is for my family, Jeana, Wilson, Stella, and our little boy Milo, so they may be proud.
All are welcome here. Thanks for noticing.
Currently thriving on Colorado's Western Slope where I am also the curator of the
Picturing Western Slope exhibit.
Resumé is available upon request.
Featured in the following news organizations & publications
The Denver Post
The Colorado Sun
Colorado Public Radio
The Denver Gazette
The Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The Associated Press
Sports Illustrated
USA Today
The Guardian
The BBC
Le Point
9News
Newsweek
ZUMA Press
Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times
Looking At Appalachia
Picturing Western Slope
Colorado Newline
5280 Magazine
The Christian Science Monitor
Montrose (CO) Daily Press
Ouray County Plaindealer
Rio Blanco (CO) Herald Times
The Frontiersman (A.K.)
Grand Junction (CO) Daily Sentinel
Water Education Colorado
Downbeat Magazine
Jazz Times Magazine
The Durango (CO) Herald
Roanoke Rapids (NC) Daily Herald
Smoky Mountain News
Sierra Vista (AZ) Herald
Half Moon Bay (CA) Review
Telluride (CO) Times-Journal
Telluride (CO) Daily Planet
Powell (WY) Tribune
The Cody (WY) Enterprise
Alamosa (CO) Valley Journal
Northwest (WY) Trail
Visualize This Magazine
Colorado Biz Magazine
Watch Newspapers.com
CBS News
NBC News
ABC News
The Denver Rocky Mountain News
Commercial Clients
Colorado Outdoors
KM Hotels
Mayfly Outdoors
Ross Reels
Able Reels
Wayfinder Magazines
The Storm Cellar
Eatery 66
Storm King Distillery
Montrose County (Government)
Secret Creek
MegaPixel Digital Imaging
The Coffee Trader
Canyon Creek
Discover Ouray (magazine)
Shelter Distillery
PHONE
+1.970.209.8495
emails
woody@williamwoody.us • woody.freelance@gmail.com
