- Tom Waits
- Todd Walker
- Jeff Wall
- David Foster Wallace
- Andy Warhol
- John Waters
- Albert Watson
- Gillian Wearing
- Alex Webb
- Weegee
- Carrie Mae Weems
- William Wegman
- Ai Weiwei
- Orson Welles
- James Welling
- H.G. Wells
- Jack Welpott
- Eudora Welty
- Wim Wenders
- Henry Wessel
- Brett Weston
- Edward Weston
- Francis Wey
- James McNeill Whistler
- Clarence H. White
- E.B. White
- Minor White
- Walt Whitman
- Elie Wiesel
- Oscar Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- Charis Wilson
- Garry Winogrand
- Frederick Wiseman
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Otto Wöhler
- David Wojnarowicz
- Marion Post Wolcott
- Art Wolfe
- Tom Wolfe
- Peter Wollen
- Francesca Woodman
- William Wordsworth
- Jamie Wyeth
Elie Wiesel
[Writer and activist, b. 1928, Sighet, Romania, lives in New York.]
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren’t they one and the same?