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Ryan Williams is a New Yorker born and raised. Prior to joining the team at WWD, she was worked at a variety of publications like Document Journal and Refinery 29, as well as on sets producing and assisting. She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2019, where she studied photography, advertising and writing. Williams is the Associate Photo Editor at WWD.
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Photographer Noah Sheldon began the series Rock in China just two weeks into his move from Brooklyn to Shanghai two years ago. He was eager to find some type of youth culture in China. Fresh off the boat and with eyes wide open, he was still experiencing the city as a traveler when he came across a poster for a rock festival, and was immediately intrigued. Sheldon remains interested in everything about the scene—the small group of people giving free hugs, the couple off in the bushes making out, the huge crowds of hip young kids, known as Chipsters, rocking out to playing bands.
New York-based photographer Dustin Aksland explores the housing boom in the Central Valley of California in his series Ventana View. Interested in documenting the rapid development of subdivisions and the disappearance of the agricultural land, Aksland makes images that are beautiful, yet unsettling and sad. While working on the