STEACY, Will - Deadline

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"For the past five years, I have photographed with unrestzricted access the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite depleted ad revenue, a steady decline in circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, my intent is to reveal the challenges and harsh realities that face the newspapper industry today. A close examination of the newspaper industry and in-depth story explaining the events that landed newsrooms in their current predicaments has largely gone untold. Since 2000 the newspaper industry had shed 30% of its workforce, making it the fastest shrinking industry in America. Yet 60% of the American public has heard little or nothing about the news industry's financial struggles. As we find ourselves amidst a massive societal transition into an information technology economy of the future in which technological advances have eroded middle skill, middle class jobs, boosted productivity while reducing the labor force, what has been the human cost of these gains? When we lose reporters, editors, newsbeats and sections of papers, we lose coverage, information, and a connection to our cities and our society, and, in the end, we lose ourselves. Without the human investment to provide news content it becomes a zero sum game on the information highway to nowhere. The fibers of the paper and the clicks of the mouse are worthless unless the words they are presented on have value. The newspaper is much more than a business, it is a civic trust." (Will STEACY)

"News is the part people don't ask for and should know. News is what can help people govern their nation, their city, their neighborhood, their school. By definition, news does not soothe. News breaks. Those big investigative projects help people understand how and why it broke and sometimes how to put it back together." (James Naughton - Executive Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1991-1996)

About the photographer, Will STEACY (b.1980):
Will STEACY is an American photographer and writer. He comes from five generations of newspaper men and worked as a Union Laborer before becoming a photographer.
His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles, Fondation Vevey Ville d’Images, Bienne Festival of Photography, World Press Photo, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, FotoFest Biennial, African American Museum of Art, Noorderlicht Foundation, Annenburg Space for Photography, among others, and represented in major collections, including The Haggerty Museum of Art, Nobel Collection, Ogden Museum and The Library of Congress.

STEACY was named 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers by The Center for Documentary Studies and one of Photo District News’ 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch.
His critically acclaimed books 'Photographs Not Taken' and 'Down These Mean Streets 'were published in 2012, and his latest book project 'Deadline' was published in 2015.
STEACY is a recipient of The Aperture Foundation Green Cart Commission and Tierney Fellowship and nominated for the 2014 Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and 2015 Prix Pictet Prize.
His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Paris Review, Aperture, Forbes, Colors, Time, Wired, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Al Jazeera America, Foam, Newsweek, HBO, CNN and he has been a guest on NPR, BBC, VICE, CBS and PBS. Steacy is represented by Christophe Guye Gallery in Zurich.