Sunday, October 23, 2022 4:00 - 5:00 PM

New York City based, W.M. Hunt returns to North Carolina with a new talk based on a project written over the past eighteen months.  It is about looking at photographs, and more specifically how he looks at them.

This event presents Hunt with a fresh opportunity to take off his mask and reveal himself.  He means to be fresh, entertaining, slightly rude and hopefully, insightful. 

W.M. – Bill – Hunt has been collecting, looking at and talking about photography for over 40 years. He is an author,The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious from Thames & Hudson, Aperture and Actes Sud; a dealer at Hasted Hunt, Ricco/Maresca; and a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, Maine Media, Aperture and ICP.

He continues to write, about his photography collections: Hunt’s Three Ring Circus. Huddled Masses, and Troupe/Troop and about photographers: Brian Griffin, Loving Light;Roger Ballen, Woke, Erwin Olaf, Wrestling with Shadows; Duane Michals, Write Me Down an Ass and Gerald Slota, two narcissists walk into a bar.  He has given talks all over the world, from Sao Paolo to Shanghai.  Hunt reviews portfolios, judges competitions, goes to photography fairs and festivals trying to to stay relevant.

Highlights from his collections have been exhibited at the Rencontres in Arles (FR); Musée de l’Élysée (SW); FOAM (Amsterdam, NL); FORMAT (Derby, UK), Foto Industria (Bologna, IT), Fotofestiwal, (Łódź, PL) and in the US at the George Eastman House (Rochester, NY); ICP (International Center for Photography, NY, NY) and elsewhere.

Photography changed his life; it gave him one.