Wow Will you saved the best for last those workwear photos are just incredible

What of life’s punishments aren’t gifts? It’s never going to be how it was, but coming through-you’ll be better and stronger. More power to you Will! 🙌 wonderful to see you again, and cheers 🍻 to you!

Hey, this video is a fresh breath of air and it is great to see you posting again, good content can be done within a week, but great content takes a long time to make. This is great content. Thank you for sticking with it and taking the time to compile this video and obviously the photos. May you have a great week William. Hannes from Nelspruit.

Mikey is one if the best and most stylish surfers that is on the planet currently! Also good onya for getting into the industry!

Another banger from one of my fav photographer 🫶

Ayy man glad to see you back and the photos you took of my city (Durban) was incredible🔥🔥🫡. Also that portrait of the horse bro 😭😭🔥🔥

Such incredible work at the end there. Immaculate vibes. 100% character/story driven. Cohesive and colorful. Really fun!

Your images a simply beautiful. I find myself on a hard moment of my career also, after working comercially with digital for 10 straight years i'm stopping everything and focusing on film only for my personal work. Honestly i felt a little burnout, bored and didnt find any of my images pleasing anymore. The challenge and fun of film photography seems to be what i was missing. Thanks for your video!

Feels like those Willy days are back again. Such beautiful pictures. Good to see you back once again ❤

welcome back will, i 'll have to watch the video again in a more quiet place but, as always, like the photos lot and appreciate your narration, even when I'd wish for things having been easier for you throughout the past year. It may be very parasocial, but I've been meaning to share the following for a while: I am very grateful to get another glimpse into your endeavours. I've been dealing with recurring bouts of depression over the last few years, and in those stretches of long and bleak days, your uploads are a short window of relief, which felt (and still feels) very valuable each time. also, I think I can empathize with things just feeling askew or "not quite right", no matter how sure you are of "doing things right", it's very unsettling and painful each time, so your dedication to your craft, you keeping up with the channel even through facing illness and the commitment to getting back in the groove of things is very inspiring to me. thank you for sharing your videos and best wishes to you and those around you, I hope you do well.

Very cool to watch you at work.

That horse photo!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Loved.this. Glad to see you making content again.

Love your evolution as a photographer over the years leading up to the Stiebuel campaign gig. I'm off to Bree Street to get me those olive trousers!

Not sure if you know the work of Joachim Brohm, but you might like his work. Your colour work always excites me. I’m sure part of it is the foreign nature of the landscape, but the excitement mainly comes from your perspective and variety. There is a cohesive atmosphere to your work, but plenty of surprises and some of the most interesting and unique colours. The picture of the newspaper in the window is an absolute favourite. Lovely video and it is wonderful to see that you are starting to feel at home with your work again; all the best!

Like riding a bike, I see! Back and better than ever.

great video mate, love the ones at the end with the guy in the blue pants and jacket!

WILLY!

First like. First comment.

Watching this and seeing your images at the end felt so damn good knowing everything you have faced this year and last man. A triumph of a campaign at the end, literally some of the best editorial / fashion pieces I have seen come out of SA. Absolutely beautiful man, keep winning!

Ever since I started watching you it has been my #1 dream to become as good as you, especially scanning/color wise. Amazing video Wil!

He’s back 🎉

You videos always inspire and motivate me to keep going thank you Will. Glad you feel like you´re back to yourself.

He's back at it again! So excited to watch this :)

Hey Will, super happy you made this video! It's really inspiring! Always love seeing the Mamiya RB67 being spotted in so many interesting places! To share, I feel personally I've been working backwards with my work recently. I was fortunate to have opportunities this year to be able to do lots of fashion creatives + editorial work. However, I found I hit a wall where I wasn't learning anymore and felt things were becoming unwieldily. I got burnt out after a few months. I was happy with the images I was making but I wasn't happy with the journey itself. However, I learned so much from the teams I worked with on my shoots, it made me really value their roles so much. I feel it's what molded them into great people in the industry + great image makers themselves. So yeah, I guess I'm more eager to learn there, network and refine my skills with assisting. I now hope this humbling gets me to a place where you are - where everything lines up when taking a photo, in front & behind the camera. I think regardless, consistency as a image maker is key. You learn what you need to grow as a photographer eventually.

the deeper i got into the vid, the wow's went up exponentially, and thus my inspiration. thanks for SHARING! it's an important part of the process, if not for you, for us!

So glad to have you back! So many of these photos were on point

So many awesome photos! Great video man, enjoyed all 41mins of it! :)

The goat has returned

Welcome back again! And i wanted to comment that for a long time: I really like that cupboard of yours.

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Your work is so incredibly good. I am so inspired every time you post new videos. I also just love the way you capture South Africa and the tiny details that are so unique to it, the way you see the world is amazing

not all exposures are good. Some suck of mine! But we learn anew!

Totally happy to have found the channel. Very, very inspiring.

Glad to see you back, Will!

This video put a huge smile on my face. This is such a great story of what real life is like. Everything doesn't always align and you will experience ups and downs, but the journey is so integral to achieving success. I love that you decided to share the whole journey and not just the last 15 mins because IMO it makes it so much more relatable and meaningful. You really found your rhythm in the portrait shoot with the artist, loved the creativity behind those shots. As for the final workwear series, hot damn my friend. Those images are outstanding! You should be super proud mate. Well done. 🙌

The way you lined up the horizons of the dirt mounds between the three photos at 34:59 is so nice

Will man! Awesome video - I loved seeing your photos return to being yours, I felt like I could see it happening throughout the video. And man that final shoot was just perfect all round. Glad to see you mate and hope you’re doing well!

You look better, William. Good to see you on top of life again!

Great to see you back out there. It can be hard to get out there when your health isn't helping. I went through a heart episode in June but all is better now. Still a little breathless at times but nothing dangerous, or so the doctor tells me. My back and hip are acting up again but not too bad. The wife is getting a knee replacement in a week so that will be fun. My film photography has been a little slow but I have been doing more digital stuff. I have picked up an Olympus E500 with the Kodak made CCD sensor and there is indeed has a very filmic look to the output. I finally have too many cameras and I have found that it slows you down. So now I limit myself to just two cameras and two lenses on any trip I make. Too many choices is a bad thing, at least for me. I have been shooting more B/W film and have started developing the negatives myself. I don't have a darkroom so prints aren't a thing right now but I do plan to make some more 6X9 images with my GW690 and then contact print the images for a sort of zine kind of thing. Should be fun. Winter for me here but Summer for you so take care and have fun. It is good to see you again.

Happy to see you back at it, Will. You haven’t missed a beat. Photos were top notch brotha. Take care 🖤

Glad to see you back on track!

Love to see you back at it! The last two shoots were my favorites of the bunch.

Jeeeeeejjj will is back!

Those joburg trips with kent sound brutal haha. The interactions with artman stu were a treat. Stoked that you starting to push out of the assitant business and into doing the photography part, exceited for what's to come. #sheepsquad4eva

That was AMAZING ... I was spellbound for every single second... And really loved the music choices as well.. Well done you ♥ ♥ ♥

happy to see you making pictures you're happy with again, and to see you enjoying life and the picture making process. Hope the recovery is going better, your images look as strong as ever!

GREAT Suff!! Loved all of it. Will watch again. Always the light and the texture in some just amazing. ❤❤❤ 0:03

Great insight in your life and amazing that you share your journey! Well done, love you're work for the brand, very good!

You're doing great work bud.

Awesome projects! And really nice photos overall. ✌

Wow . . . How exiting for the fish you caught and then put your boot on while on the metal surface. So thoughtful

W longgg video!!

ok, 1st the good part so my comment here will hopefully be of a 'constructive criticism' nature: 🙂 + you have done an almost extensive review of things you wanted to talk about ... well done ... + you have also shown some fine examples of your work just as well ... kudos to that ... i enjoyed some of your photographs indeed and your videography is also top notch imo, although i preferred to see more still shots than moving images in a relatively long 40+ minutes video! now with the points i personally consider as 'negative' ones in any video of this kind online: - too much 'showing off' yourself talking while facing the camera with extensive mostly 'personal view' talks, turning an otherwise short yet more useful video into an overly long and boring one! let's not forget all of us: since the Internet started more than three decades ago, people have also gotten more impatient about everything, thus not willing to spend time on long conversations or discussions online unless it's an entertaining movie or show and things like that ... (they'd even occasionally pay good money for that and go to the theaters for example ...) 😉 * remedy: do show your face, even if for long minutes, but give it some variety as well so people would be more interested in following up instead of using the fast-forward feature of KZfaq's video player, thus not listening to what you're saying! (personally though, i prefer 'educational' videos with less of the presenter's face and more text over images perhaps ... or his/her voice heard over images + text of stuff ... after all, photography and video is first and foremost about 'seeing' rather than hearing or even reading: "A picture is worth a thousand words!" or so the old saying goes ...) 🥶 and in cases like this, such texts could also give extra useful information about the camera/lens/film/ISO/exposure info (shutter speed/aperture/etc)/post-processing software/... and so on ... (and they don't have to take a long time thus lengthening the video's final 'footage' ... they can appear briefly but the viewer can always pause the video and read them for as long as they like ... or they can appear in the video's description for example, with a link to another site where detailed info about the photos and stuff has been posted ...) - this bit of my overly long comment is going to be a criticism as well as a friendly advice ... (coming from an old photographer who started his photography venture at a mere age of 8 in the mid-1960s btw ...) : understanding from your input, you don't do the darkroom part of your film photography ... nothing wrong with that ... many if not most photogs, even old pros, don't do that either ... but that's comparable to people who don't do the post-processing of their digital images (using Photoshop or any software) themselves ... which, in the latter case, it's exactly the opposite because now, most digital photographers, pro and amateur alike, do that part themselves! 🙂 yes, i can see that you get only the developing part of your film photography done by commercial labs and then you do the (scanning and) post processing of the images yourself ... great! but there is a slight yet VERY IMPORTANT problem there: 'commercial' photo labs usually use 'replenished' chemicals to save money on material, which is ok for snapshots and family travel photos etc ... but that kind of film processing affects final negative (or slide's) image quality AT LEAST 50 per % ... that's a NO-NO to me at least ... and to quite a number of experienced film photography buffs, old AND young, pro or enthusiast ... (in fact, starting in the early 1990s, i stopped doing film photography long before digital photography became affordable and mainstream a decade or so later, simply because i lost my access to a permanent darkroom so i could do the 'wet-processing' part of the business myself too ... and to be fair, probably the only major drawback to film photography is its high 'costs' ... long story ...) . . . long story short, you're doing a really nice thing and it shows you ARE truly in love with what you're doing! and that's one of the things i highly admire and respect in people when i see it ... keep up the good job young fellow! that's what i still do myself too, if time (and expenses of film photography) allow that is ... many others also do it ... and it's also good to see the younger born-into-digital-revolution generations are getting so interested about retro stuff such as film photography, thus reviving it from an untimely and unjust death! pitty people like me won't live long enough to enjoy shooting film (and digital of course!) way into the future ... (maybe in another lifetime ... 🤔) but at least i can say goodbye to life in relative peace of mind when on my deathbed ... 👻

William, love your videos, especially this one. Wanted to ask: do you have any advice/perspective in terms of pitching editorials/fashion as well as finding assistance opportunities? I'm feeling a little stuck in my career currently where I'm confident in my abilities but feel like im sitting around hoping to get contacted instead of making some sort of conscious effort to reach out/pitch things.

the workwear shoot towards the end is so sickkkkk! which film stock did you use for that shoot?

Is the song that starts around 1:03 available anywhere? I love it.

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nice pic at 17:02

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