Bill Higgins
Twilight, Jersey Side
Photograph, 2015, 11 ½” x 17”
Framing by the Noble Maritime Collection

Bill Higgins is a fine art, commercial, and medical photographer. He has exhibited his work in many locales, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, and Staten Island Museum, where he received the Weissglass Memorial Purchase Prize. His medical photographs have been published in both foreign and domestic medical journals, and he received the University Hospice Award. Higgins kept a studio at Snug Harbor for many years, and the locale influenced his work. Another influence—growing up on a houseboat studio moored in the Fresh Kills—led to his connection to maritime themes. “As Staten Island changes,” he writes, “I can still find the places of my youth, even though they are often obscured or concealed. It’s like looking at a great painting and seeing the drawing under the paint.” His work was featured in the Noble Maritime Collection exhibition, Inspired: Contemporary Artists Respond to John A. Noble.