Will Steacy


Will Steacy is an American writer and photographer based in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

Life and work

Steacy "descended from five generations of newspaper men. His great-great-great-grandfather started the Evening Dispatch in York, Pa., in 1876 and his father was an editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer." He received his BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University in 2003. Before becoming a professional photographer, he worked as a union laborer.
Sean O'Hagan in The Observer described Steacy's Down these Mean Streets as "a merging of his own photographs with newspaper clippings, journal entries and various found material pertaining to the long death of the American dream, from Reaganomics in the 1980s to the current economic recession."
In 2011 he photographed paper money, "removed from circulation but not yet destroyed, and photographed them with a large-format film camera".
For five years from 2009, Steacy documented the struggle and decline of The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, published as a book, Deadline, and as a tribute newspaper.

Publications

Publications by Steacy

Steacy's work is held in the following permanent collection: