a sad day for logic

• Prize
• Photographer
  william sands, United States
• Studio
  Fractures Photo Collective
• Website
  http://www.wilsands.com
• Instagram
  @wilsands

series documents feeling outside the jackson ga penitentiary where troy davis was executed.

Wil Sands is a photojournalist currently based in Richmond, Virginia. As a journalist Wil is guided by the belief that journalism’s role is to “hold truth(s) to power”. As a photographer Wil searches for stories that add nuance and complexity to public discourse. His work seeks to challenge reductionist narratives that maintain the status quo.

2011 Co-Founded Fractures Photo Collective as a platform to promote documentary photography and as an alternative business model to traditional agencies.

2014 Co-Created the Voizes Archive, an online census of the international prison experience.