about
A. W. Owens is a photographer, writer, and conceptual artist whose work explores memory, intimacy, loneliness, and the ways photographs become evidence of lived and imagined experience. His practice combines fine-art photography, writing, physical correspondence, and generative processes, often allowing the boundaries between photograph, memory, and narrative to remain uncertain.
His current projects include Letters to Emma, an ongoing collaborative photographic correspondence created with Emma Reverie, and Wish You Were Here, a postcard-based project that places new narratives and imagined shared experiences within photographs Owens made during his travels. Both projects examine how photography can preserve not only what happened, but also longing, absence, and the lives we imagine alongside our own. His earlier project American Loneliness uses photographs and short texts to examine solitude and absence within the American landscape.
Owens earned a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is currently completing his MFA in Photography. He is also the author of several poetry collections, including The Women, Meant for Me, Where Pigeons Rest, Payments of Living, and The Book of M.
His work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Portland, and San Francisco, including SeeMe at Armory, The Affordable Art Fair, Art Takes Miami: Scope Miami Beach, Black Box Gallery, and the Academy of Art University Spring Show. His photography has appeared in publications including Fujilove Magazine, The White Wall Magazine, Mob Journal, MAC Magazine, Beautica, OFF TOWN, Socks and Pizza: The Book II, and Artist Talk Magazine. In 2026, Letters to Emma was also presented at MODE by Flickr in Minneapolis.
