WILLIAM ABBOTT:

Has had a love affair with photography for more than thirty years.  Abbott's photographic expertise includes architecture, advertising, catalogs, fashion, photo essays and portraits, including weddings and nude portraiture.  Abbott's work has been shown and sold in galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, garnering several awards in the United States and abroad.

Abbott owned and operated Abbott Graphic & Art Supply (otherwise known as "AGAS") in New Hope, Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1984. 

Abbott Photography Studio was started in 1986 on the Monterey Peninsula until 1998 when he moved to Orange Country CA in 2000. His studio was there until 2009 when he moved his studio to Greenville, South Carolina.

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Traveling:

In 1985 Abbott embarked on what would be a 6 month journey through the United States, shooting photographs of people and landscapes as he went.  During these travels, he became keenly aware of the American propensity for creating garbage, and this awareness became the inspiration for "What Man Throws Away," an ongoing photo series which explores what we so freely dismiss as rubbish, often unaware of its devastating impact on our environment. 

Following his tour of the United States, Abbott spent eleven months in Europe, traveling throughout Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland, capturing images of the beauty of each nation’s landscapes and people. 

In addition to traveling abroad, Abbott continues to travel through the United States in order to discover and record as much of the American experience as possible. 

Alaskan Trek:

In 1989, Alaska beckoned, and there Abbott found not only the Alaskan landscape to be even more beautiful than any one can imagine. Spending four months photographing, after taking a Alaskan Ferry from Port Hardy on Vancouver Island through the Inland Passage to Haines, Alaska. Then driving up through the Yukon Territory and back in to Alaska and down to Valdez, to check out the Valdez oil spill and see if he could get photos of the spill and the impact on the environment. But Abbott was chased out of Valdez by the

Abbott’s next photographic adventure took him to the Salton Sea

What Man Throws Away:

In traveling around the country Abbott has found an immense amount of items from appliances to vehicles, thrown by the side of roads, front and back yards just about anywhere that things can be thrown. Looking at all of this, it seems that the people who throw all of this stuff away just don't care, sad as it may seem. But then again, what does someone do with an old chair (left) thrown out into a lake bed when there was still some water in the lake bed. First found in 1984. I went back each time on visiting the area that would be at least 3 times a year, on each visit I went see if the chair was there and then photographed the chair in different states of despair until it had been removed in 1987.