DREAMING DIFFERENCE - DAVID WILLIAMS

3rd Feb - 17th Feb

We are delighted to announce that our first Studies in Photography curated exhibition at 6WS will be a retrospective of the work of acclaimed photographer David Williams.

As you are all aware, we were so pleased to release the second in our Scottish Photographic Artists series with a book of David's work in DREAMING DIFFERENCE, published last year. The exhibition, like the book, will be a selection of works taken from throughout his career and will be a celebration of the contribution David has made to photography in Scotland and beyond.

David Williams studied English and Sociology before becoming a professional musician and songwriter. He took up photography in 1980 and his work has been widely exhibited and published internationally. Williams is the recipient of a range of major awards and prizes including the BBC Television 150 Years of Photography Award. In 2018 he was nominated for the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. 

Williams became Head of Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in 1990 and was appointed Reader in 2003. He retired from ECA in 2017.

His practice is wide-ranging, but in recent years has been increasingly informed by the notion of nonduality. This is particularly evident in a range of projects undertaken in Japan.