Within almost a year after his father’s passing, William Josephs Radford has covered multiple stages in the contemplation of his grief and mourning of loss. Following the February project “White Knight,” the artist has released two more photography projects in this series, each with a distinct set of experimental techniques worth a closer look.
William Josephs Radford is a British-Spanish artist and abstract photographer born in 1998 in Andalucia, known for his unique multicultural perspective on identity and belonging. Radford developed a passion for visual art at an early age and enrolled in the University of Gloucestershire to study fine art photography. His education equipped him with all the needed tools and techniques for artistic experimentation and an unconventional approach to making art. The artist is now a strong advocate of authentic art techniques, opposing Photoshop and other assistive technology in photo editing. His images impress with the creative use of light and a close focus on composition and texture.
The recent “Gradient Loss” and “Residual Noise” projects represent the continuation of William Josephs Radford’s “White Knight” project presented at the beginning of 2025. The first project symbolized the beginning of Radford’s emotional journey of mourning the loss of his father and was distinguished by the use of ghosting and lens masking techniques. These approaches, along with the use of a Vaseline-smeared lens to render the effect of watching the world with tear-filled eyes, have also transitioned to the new projects.
“Gradient Loss,” the second project in William Josephs Radford’s mourning series, symbolizes the gradual nature of his father’s passing that started with a cognitive decline and memory loss, culminating in a physical death. This series features black and white photographs, echoing the loss of joy and the entry of grief into Radford’s daily life experience. Abstract self-portraits created with long exposures and lens masking dominate the collection, reflecting the artist’s often fragmented psychological state at the moment.
“Residual Noise,” Radford’s third project in the mourning series, is focused on capturing static, noise, and grain in photographs. Fuzzy, abstract images in this series serve as both a metaphoric feeling of his father’s presence months after passing and a symbol of his amnesia. Once finalized, the three projects have unified into a full creative cycle that should be viewed as a whole to understand the full meaning William Josephs Radford put into it. For more details, visit the official website of the artist.
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