My name is Skip Williams.  I have been a photographer since I fell in love with the craft in the early 1970s.  I bought my first Olympus OM-1 at 14 and never looked back.  I shot high school yearbook and at college I was the sports and event photographer.  I worked a part time job for the Furman University professional photographer to earn beer money.  I was the guy who went to all the football, soccer, tennis, basketball, baseball, and intra-mural activities. I took publicity, newspaper and yearbook photos.  I was also the darkroom slave at the time, developing and printing 20-30 rolls in a busy week, sometimes all night before going to classes to earn a Chemistry degree.  I learned the craft of photography the old fashioned way.  No classes. No formal instruction.  Just lots of Black and White and Slide film through my trusty Olympus SLRs.  Hundreds and hundreds of rolls.

I pursued a normal career after college and kept photography as a hobby, I just couldn’t stomach the low pay of a photo career.  I shot film exclusively with Olympus and Leica gear until I went digital in 2001.  I moved to Olympus 4/3rds DSLRs and then to Olympus Micro 43rds cameras I have today.  Today I use those digital and other film cameras from Pinhole through to Minox and Medium Format.

As I’ve come back to film photography since ~2015, I’ve found that the more artistic methods like Pinhole really suit me.  I love the imperfection, the purity of vision, and the lack of ability to actually control the image.  These cameras’ images tend to transcend reality with their long exposures, extreme field of view, and almost infinite depth of field.  I’ve started shooting a lot more pinhole the past five years or so.

I don’t shoot many people photos sand I don’t usually shoot formal landscapes, flowers, birds, animals, etc.  My work is often not the normal stuff that most photographers gravitate to. I’ve done this photo thing so long that I have thousands of normal photos. The flowers of 1986 look remarkably similar to those of 2026.   As you can see from my current work, it is an eclectic mixture of digital and film photos, mostly concentrating on form, shadow, light, small details, or just fun.  I love the experimental nature of pinhole and panorama.  I have also found an interest in digital Infrared photography, usually black and white.

I have lived in Westfield, NJ for almost 40 years with my wife of the same length and work in industries that support pharmaceutical commercialization.  I grew up in the Atlanta, GA area, so I have Southern roots.  We have two grown daughters and our only dog passed at a healthy 15 years old a few years ago, RIP Puzzle.