William Guion

William Guion has photographed the landscape and trees of the South for more than 30 years. Through his camera’s lens, he explores the quiet presence, or spirit of place revealed in the changing moods of light on the land.

He was introduced to photography as part of his college journalism curriculum, then pursued then his photographic training after graduation though a combination of self-study and participation as student and assistant in various West Coast photography workshops. In 1985, he met California architectural and landscape photographer Morley Baer and began a friendship/mentor relationship that lasted until Baer’s death in 1995. Following Baer’s advice to “find something you love and photograph it again and again,” Guion began his series of live oak studies on his native soil of Louisana.

Guion’s Photographs are contained in a variety of corporate and private collections across the country as well as the public collections of the Louisiana Folklife Museum, the Louisiana State Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art.