About — Will Foerster

Portrait by Romy Kirchauer at Seliger Studio, April 2025.

Will Foerster is a NYC-based photographer who works exclusively in black and white. Foerster currently works as a full-time photo assistant and digitech for photographer Mark Seliger. An academic of both the history of photography and art history, Foerster’s work strongly references classical photography, surrealism, and minimalism.

Photographing at Tybee Island, August 2022. Photographed on 35mm by John Pearson.

Honoured to have won this year’s International Photography Award’s Advertising/Fashion Category for Non-Pro. Always a fun time participating in these competitions, and as usual, thank you to @scaddotedu and @scad_photo for all of your sup

‘River Studies, Banff National Park, AB-CA, 2024’
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‘Straight Bluson Jacket in Patent Lameskin Leather, Celine, NYC, 2024’
‘Salzburg Cape, Loro Piana, NYC, 2024’
‘Embroidered Wool Coat, Valentino Garavani, NYC, 2024’
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Project (ongoing) is up on my website which is

Ava, Fiona, and John on Tybee Island, 2024.
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Four frames of our beach trip from this past weekend, taken on film that had been baking in the trunk of the car for months.
Shot with my Polaroid which I have purposefully destroyed to the point where it

Lily Meyers, 2024.
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These images are from back in May when Lily stood in during a lighting test for a job happening later that day, but Lilly killed it to the point that the portraits stand by themselves!
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Self-portrait composition mockups in the Seliger studio!

Absolutely unreal that I get to do these composites for work now. I haven’t had much time for personal projects recently since making the move to NYC, but new work and exciting things a

Shammah and Ava for @photobookmagazine and @scaddotedu
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Photobook EIC- Allison Hernon @718blonde
Photobook CD- Mike Ruiz @mikeruizone
SCAD Chair of Photography- Michael O’Brien @michael74obrien
SCAD Assoc. Chair of Photography- Josh Jalber

BTS @ SS 2025 @katebarton Show

The three most recent additions to ‘HANDBAGS’, a series I started back in 2023.
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‘Half Moon Bags in Black/White Leather, The Row, NYC, 2024’
‘Bel Air XL Carry All Bag in Black Smooth Calfskin with Aged Gold Hardware, B

‘Drew Hart Singing with Loveseat, Var. 2 and 3, 2024’
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What an absolute talent and such a fun time singing some country in the studio with @hart_art.co and his furniture. Everyone should go and take a second to check out the stunning wor