Wig Worland started taking photos with a Canon FTB in 1984 after an art teacher told him he should try to do something with his life. BMX was, at the time, more important than GCE’s.
After leaving school Wig ‘fell’ into a job as a commercial photographers assistant and started hanging out with skateboard legends Phil Chapman and Duncan ‘Wurzel’ Houlton at the weekend. Before he knew it he’d started shooting skateboarding and being called a photographer himself.
The nineties saw a run of publications using his pictorial skill, Transworld Skateboarding, RAD and Skateboard! to name but a few.
He also got to meet Tony Hawk.
In 1995 Wig was instrumental in the beginnings of Sidewalk Surfer Magazine, which has since lost the Surfer. The years as the Chief Photographer and Photo Editor made sure he went round the world more than once.
Since the millennium Wig has toured extensively on his pushbike through India, Morocco and the Patagonia part of South America. He’d like to think that ‘Cycling is now his life’.Though it probably isn't.
Wig Worland currently lives/has found happiness in Zone 2 with his lovely wife Kate and baby daughter.
Though this does involve a daily fight with condensation.
Digital photography still keeps him awake at night, but for different reasons.
