Will Boase

research // photo // etc

Reformed photojournalist turned photography researcher and doctoral student living in Rotterdam, NL. Fascinated by the (after)lives of photographs and wider digital visual media, how photography makes the world, and how photographers can do a better job of communicating. Since September 2025 I study this as part of the Doctoral Programme in Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, Helsinki.

Co-initiator (with Andrea Stultiens) of the Dutch Royal Academy of Art’s Networked Audience research group, current member of Aalto University’s Image Matters doctoral research group, initiator of The Shuffle (an exhibition on your mobile phone), guest editor of Trigger’s special edition Networking The Audience, about digital circulation and small screens, which was also published on Telegram.

I continue to freelance as a photographer, writer, and teacher around visual culture, and was part of the World Press Photo Award’s digital forensics team for the 2025 edition. Occasional lecturer on photography theory and practice, including for Fotea, and more recently on AI imagery from a curious skeptic’s perspective, teaching positive and negative use cases for a variety of audiences including the Royal Academy of Art (NL).

At the moment I am interested in developing projects around AI literacy and the roles photography could play in establising or strengthening consensus reality, so if that’s the kind of thing you’re into, I would love to hear from you!

Want to contact me? my gmail is willboase.
My phone number is somewhere on the internet too.
Seeking parasocial proximity? Here’s my IG.