Andrew Willis is a photographer and Creative director from Vancouver, Canada. 

Willis was classically trained in fine arts through his childhood, and continues to study and practice his art in Vancouver and paris, France.

Willis has been actively creating his portfolio since 2005. His body of work contains mixed-media illustrations, Photography, cinema, product design, and writing. His work combines the power of people, places, products, and events to create bold images that communicate his subjects as desirable, necessary, and lasting.

The subjects of Willis’ work are often a clash of ‘uptown’ and ‘downtown’ personalities who are living on the edge of their own experience. whether in business or in pleasure, his subjects are often visually caught in “the in-between” of their rise, fall, and overall human experience.

The key to each of willis’ commissions is the quick rapport that he builds with his clients to understand intimately who his clients are and what they want to communicate of themselves. It is through controlled styling and planning that his clients receive their series of images that are unique to them and serve to audiences as images of desire, compassion, and authenticity.

The style of Willis’ work tastefully serves luxury consumers through his unique application of a punk aesthetic that reveals the power and agency of each of his subjects; whether politician, drag queen, banker, preist, model, private family, rock and roller, or friend. 

Willis’ work has been described as ‘southern gothic’, texture-heavy, ghostly, and celebrating ‘americana’ rock and roll youth culture as it permeates any age. There is a liminal quality in his work that feels familiar and nostalgic to audiences. Willis achieves this from his unique use of themes, settings, and motifs from the ‘mid-century medieval’ design aesthetic of the 1960s and 1970s that saturated american tourist destinations and media, and still resonate to this day.

Willis’ unique mixture of dark, mid-century baroque revival atmospheres mixed with glam rock stylings and powerful subjects creates his signature black and white portraits that compose his anthology.

Willis has a bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction in communication from capilano university and an associate’s degree in new media design from the British Columbia Institute of TEchnology (BCIT) and EMily Carr

WILLIS IS CURRENTLY creating a new EXHIBITION of his photography TO DEBUT IN PARIS IN 2026 with a companion hardcover book.

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