In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Nat Ward, a photographer whose work spans bold installations, conceptual projects, and experimental collaborations, merging place, materiality, and identity into immersive visual narratives.
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Nat Ward is a photographer and artist who loves to explore the spaces where stories, places, and identities overlap. His work often mixes photography with writing and installation, creating projects that feel part documentary, part imagined narrative. Rather than giving clear answers, he invites us into a world of ambiguity—where images, words, and objects spark curiosity and reflection.
He has shown his work in exhibitions across the U.S. and abroad, always pushing beyond the limits of traditional photography. Sometimes this means pairing photographs with fragments of text, other times building entire environments that surround the viewer. What ties it all together is Ward’s interest in how memory and myth shape the way we see and understand the world around us. His art is less about presenting a fixed truth and more about opening a space for questions, wonder, and discovery.
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