William Barrington-Binns
b. 1968, currently resides and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

William Barrington-Binns is a British fine art photographer and mixed media artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation. His early professional recognition includes associate memberships with the Royal Photographic Society, the Master Photographers Association, and the British Institute of Professional Photographers. In 2017, his “Tribal” portfolio received the Platinum Grand Award at the PPAC International Photographers Series, together with First Place in the Creative Portrait category and several Gold Awards. His later recognitions include projects acknowledged through the Dezeen Awards in 2020, 2022, and FA23, as well as inclusion in One Eyeland’s Best of the Best Photographers 2016 and further awards from the Chromatic Awards, WPE, Fine Art Photography Awards, and ND Awards. He has also received recognition at the Xposure International Photography Festival and serves as an ARRI Lighting Ambassador.

Barrington-Binns has presented his work in international contexts, including London, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Macau, and Dubai. In Thailand, his work has been shown in institutional exhibitions such as “Khon for the Future” in 2021 and “Takumi in Time” in 2025 at MOCA BANGKOK, where his works are also held in the permanent collection. Works such as “The Grace and Power of Motion,” “Marie de Medici,” and “Caged” reflect recurring concerns in his practice, particularly portraiture, performance, and the construction of identity through imagemaking.

His work examines the body as a site where identity, gesture, and cultural reference intersect. Light, fabric, movement, and surface are treated as active visual elements, allowing the image to move between photography and a more staged and material form of expression. Drawing from Thai classical performance, Japanese artisanal philosophy, and Western visual traditions, he develops a visual language shaped by tension between stillness and motion, control and release, presence and disappearance.

Barrington-Binns continues to work across both artistic and commercial fields through his studio WBB & Co. Alongside his exhibition practice, he collaborates with international clients while continuing to develop a body of work that places photography within a broader expanded field. Across these contexts, his practice remains engaged with materiality, artifice, and cultural memory.