I am an extremely easy-going, inquisitive individual. Always on the move.

I appreciate a great bottle of wine, fresh food, music of all kinds and will try anything once.

I already tried writing a bio once – it didn’t work out so well. Here are a few words from a friend:

A self-proclaimed “life photographer”, Wil Fernandez is doing for photography what Hunter S. Thompson did for embedded journalism—with, perhaps, a few less firearms and psychedelics.

Photos, to Fernandez, represent not a path toward paychecks, but a path toward spirited adventure, and the means by which to capture his conquests, inspirations, fears, and aspirations to serve as catalysts for change and trophies of accomplishment.

Originally from the North Eastern United States, photography led Fernandez—along with his Jack Russell Terrier, Sid—to Southern California following a five-year tour with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division; but he hardly stays put. Instead, he’ll often wake—Sid at his side—to find himself in “the belly of the whale,” looking through lenses in such complex locales as the streets of Amsterdam, the ruins of Peru, and the secluded villages of Mexico.

His subjects, meanwhile, follow suit, as he prides himself on capturing extraordinary facets of seemingly ordinary lives and events—with a special place in his heart for canine photography. His photos, then, narrate a full range of stories encompassing everything from naturally-set locals, expatriates, and neighborhood heroes and antiheroes; to stray four-legged friends in foreign lands; to models and celebrities captured with an atypical candor.

Upon returning from these extended journeys of cultural immersion and creative inquisition, Fernandez then processes his work with an almost reverently light hand—carefully preserving his subjects’ deep grain of character while modifying only those elements which stand in the viewer’s way as obstacles or distractions.

The result? Real photos of real people and places taken while having a really good time.