John Willis
John Willis is a photographer who is currently living and teaching in Rhode Island. From 1990 until his retirement in 2020, he was a professor of art at Marlboro College. He has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography and many other grants. His photographs are in more than sixty collections, among them the Amon Carter Museum, Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman Museum of Photography and Film, J. Paul Getty Museum, Heard Museum, High Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
His books include Mni Wiconi / Water Is Life: Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2019), Views from the Reservation: A New Edition (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2019; originally published in 2010 by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago), and, with Tom Young, Recycled Realities (Center for American Places, 2006). Currently his collaborative book project Requiem for the Innocent, El Paso and Beyond is being printed. The book is a collaboration with writer Robin Behn and composer Matan Rubinstein (George F. Thompson Publishing 2020).
