LONDON -- "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
Photographer Will Carter quotes Henry James as he tries to account for himself. He could substitute self-belief for doubt, and add in his own huge dashes of optimism. From childhood he has never followed conventional paths. In his current life, in his North London upstairs studio, he has cats asleep on sofas, a clutter of screens and lights and canopies, and overflowing stacks of photographs and books. He surrounds himself with the paraphernalia of the artist-photographer, the celebrant of "the madness of art."
He wears his hair long, and chooses comfort in his clothes. For his work he adopted the signature Will C, as phonetically that suggested to him "we'll see." That says something about his characteristic easygoing attitude. Will was born 65 years ago in the west of London.
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