About
People ask me how long I’ve been a photographer and I always have difficulty with the answer. For one thing I’m not sure when to begin counting and for a long time I had a very real difficulty – almost a shyness, about stating that I was a photographer. I didn’t feel worthy.
The counting thing, lets see:
1971 – 40 years :: do I begin when I first became enamored with photography as a child with my first camera a Kodak brownie held at waist height to photograph, I think I was about 7 years old
1978 – 33 years :: or in high school grade 9 when I first shot and processed my own black and white 35mm negatives (which I still have) and went on to produce most of the images for our grade 13 yearbook
1984 – 27 years :: or in second year university when I bought my first 35mm camera (and ate abysmally for months) so I could take a technical photography workshop and begin developing ideas I’m still interested in to this day
1989 – 22 years :: or when I sold my first black and white art photograph my first year after graduating from university while working at Stelco Steel pursuing a corporate career
1994 – 17 years :: or when I had my first exhibition in my friend Enver Bismillah’s restaurant after quitting my corporate career and began embarking on my oh so convoluted artistic career
2000 – 11 years :: or when I finally opened my studio so I could work continuously without interruption (ah we can dream can’t we)
Click here to download a PDF of my Artistic CV
2011 – Interview for TVO and CONTACT 2011
2 minutes with William Oldacre, Canadian fine-art photographer and master printer.
2010 – Interview for NOW Tube Toronto at Nuit Blanche, Airfish video installation
2010 – Airfish video installation at Nuit Blanche 2010 Toronto Canada
2010 – Timelapse of setup for Airfish at Nuit Blanche 2010 Toronto Canada
2010 – Magazine spread in Profifoto Magazine for Photographers Network Germany
Photographers Network 2010 selection, Profifoto magazine, Hope Bay VII
2008 – Interview for BravoTV at Coloured City exhibition, Tinku Gallery
2004 – Interview for ZEDtv on CBC Canada